As an addition, I can understand a US citizen not understanding the concept of a limit to the right of Freedom of Speech so long as that speech does not involve something like the famous 'Fire' in a movie-theatre type speech. In both countries, for example, shouting 'Death to the Leader (insert King/Prime-minister/President as required)' would be a violation of the Right to Freedom of speech because it encourages a violent act, those are pretty clear cut cases.
However, when you get to things like inciting hatred, it's a much more complex situation. You could argue that anyone who listens to Westboro and follows them would have to have been inherently Homophobic in the first place and it was simply a matter of time, and they could be right, but what about kids who go onto X-Box live and learn racist or homophobic comments without even understanding what they mean and then repeat them verbatim? Are they guilty of inciting hatred or merely unknowingly propagating it? I think it is easy for a mindset, if it goes unchallenged, to become accepted without people even truly realizing the impact that mindset has. Whilst parents can indeed educate their children, peer pressure is a powerful motivator.
Both countries have chosen to take different routes to dealing with that, since I only live in one of them, I'm not really in a position to judge the success of the American solution of having the right to ignore them for the idiot they are, but the UK takes the position that strong legal protection is the best way to flush, at the very least, the more intolerant views out of society and prevent confrontations and assumptions from all the different races and cultures here.
Will it work? To be honest, probably not entirely, does the American system work? Once again, probably not entirely

I meant that there were not many examples of such a countries being the cause of World/Cold War.
To be honest, if you go back through history, the area a war covers has depended far more on logistics than anything else, Wars and Empires tend to get as big as they
can get depending on the means of locomotion (foot, horse, vehicle), so whilst I'll certainly agree that both World Wars started in Europe, I think had we had planes and tanks in the days of the Syrian empire, there would have been wars of the same scope back then. I'll agree though that fear of resurgence of some of those views is certainly a motivator in the attitude we have
