The Pentagon calls the U.S. military campaign in Iraq "Operation Iraqi Freedom." This is clearly intended to reflect U.S.-British justification of their attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and "liberate" Iraq without a United Nations resolution.
Modern Western ideologies such as democracy, freedom and individualism were originally Christian beliefs. In his book "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order," Harvard scholar Samuel Huntington says ideological rivalries between capitalism and socialism have ended; therefore, future conflicts will be caused by the clash of civilizations.
Many pundits, taking a hint from Huntington, argue that the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States and the Iraqi war demonstrated a clash between the Christian and Islamic civilizations. I disagree, because no civilization that has ever existed has been so intolerant as to deny the existence of other civilizations.