no, my point has always been that all cultures have their sins. which was the point i was making above about muslims and the crusades. you're the one who painted them as evil and the christians as universal heroes.
You're the one who wishes we would all just gloss over any sin of the American government.
Jean Kirkpatrick came up yesterday and reading this made me think of her dumb slogan which was then co-opted by the people who use slogans as a shortcut to thinking. "Blame America".
It's just a shame that rather than focus on things like the concept of "blowback", it's sooo much easier and jingoistic to think that bad stuff happens to us because everyone "hates America" or "hates our freedom". It's just a guarantee that more bad stuff will continue to happen to us and we for the life of us will think that it's because we own homes and shop at the mall.
