> I guess I've been saying this exactly to the wind, and no one has > listened since 9/11! Wonder why this reality is so hard to > digest by Americans. Really, I don't know.
I know exactly why. I smashed my forehead against it for the last 18 months over on Used Kharma's Politics group - "They hate us because of our freedoms" is easy because it plays easily into playing good guys and bad guys. The Muslims wear the black hats and that the end, thinking over. It's easier "They hate us for our policies" is much more difficult to shallow because it carries with it the possibility that the U.S. might not be the angelic good guys. It carries with it having to conduct a relatively honest review and say "While 9/11 was a horrific crime, maybe supporting Saddam, The Shah and The House of Saud wasn't the smartest thing we've ever done either." In this world you rare run across strict black and whites. Things are always shades of gray. The fact of the Matter is that the U.S. has for 100 years been saying "Democracy and republics are all very good and well for us. But not for you brown people" and then the U.S. Supports every dictator with a funny hat, brutal thugs at his beck and call and a basement torture chamber. A lot of people, including 60 million who voted for The Shrub don't want to engage in this sort of self reflection about the country They want to shout "We're the good guys!!" until it's true. Rule one - when you find yourself in a hole *stop digging* Iraq proves that the American Establishment hasn't mastered this basic premise. Stupid Americans would cheerfully slaughter every old man, every woman and every screaming baby in Iraq before they admitted that the Us government is capable of being evil or even mistaken. Where I come from, Killing children who were not involved in attacking you is considered murder. -- Jay P Hailey ~Meow!~ MSNIM - jayphailey ; AIM -jayphailey03; ICQ - 37959005 HTTP://jayphailey.8m.com "The vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman." - Louis _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
