Can America be vigilant while working for peace..?

It hit me! the reason people, in particular the conservitive right wing are seemingly so anti-peace isn't because they want war. It's because they don't know how to be vigilant without hate. I have been seeing the coverage of Pres. Obama's trip to the Middle East become more and more under attack. He is fulfilling a campain promise he made in '07 to visit a major Islamic/Muslim center within' his first 100 days in office. He is a little late on that promise, but will be there 6-4-09 Cairo, Egypt to be exact.. I am not going to write on the politics of that visit in this piece. Rather on the fact that again pundit talk has revealed another view into their thought.

Since 911 people in the U.S. have had a very clear vision of the fact that we
have enemies, who those enemies are is not as clear. I think that this understanding that we have to hate someone, because someone hates us, has made it easier to generate the emotion needed to maintain the illusion that we are safer by way of vigilence.

With Pres. Obama going to the Middle East, and trying to visibly change our foreign policy, in presence at the very least. He is blurring the lines of 'enemy' that have been so well established.

If you know someone hates you, it's easy to keep yourself in a vigilant frame of mind. This way you are ready for them to attack you. It takes alot of energy/emotion to maintain this level of vigilence..
If Pres. Obama is in the least bit successful in reaching Islamic/ Muslim people .With a message that the U.S. isn't at 'WAR' with the whole of their people, and the base for future peace is laid. It will help to bring the hate we have for that part of the world down aswell. I think it's the fear of not having this hate to draw on, that the conservitive right is afraid of losing. Not because they are truly bad/evil people, but because they don't know how to maintain that level of energy/emotion without the ability to hate a particular enemy.

If someone is 'the same as you' in apperance, thinking, and lifestyle... You feel comfortable in the thought that you know how that person will react in a given situation. On the flipside, if someone is unfamiliar to you or 'foreign' their actions will be unpredictable to you, and scary. There is alot of conformity in our socity and others. Not so much because people love to be, look, and think the same for sames sake. Rather there is security in uniformity. If everyone looks the same, you can conclude you have a pretty good idea how the next person will react to a situation. This is based on what 'you' would do in that situation.
By starting the peace process with people who are different, and scary. Obama is taking away a piece of the security we feel by thinking everyone who is different is dangerous. Of course the people in the Middle East won't look like main street America anytime soon. Conservitives are worried that if we don't outright hate them all, they will become more like us by way of, we both are working torward peace. This would make it harder to tell who is an enemy and who eventhough they don't look like us, is not.
Thinking that it's suicidal to create a pathway to peace, other then blowing up everyone who you are fighting is just so far fetched, even if it was possible. That I don't pay much attention to that way of thinking. However it seems apperant that it is FEAR, not of our enemy, but in the belief that people in the United States of America. Will not be capable of working torward peace , and maintaining a vigilant mind set at the same time...