What I would like to know is how is it that in 2008, nearly seven years after the tragedy of 911, the people, politicians and culture of America still refuses to discuss the possibility that an examination of America and her actions of the last 100 years in the 3rd world and middle east may help explain why the world has an anti American political bias? The minute anyone in America even suggests that the United States is in some way responsible for her own misery, they are shouted down, made to feel unpatriotic and shoved out the door. I suggest that if Americans were more aware of the impact their foreign policy has made in the world over the last 100 years and if Americans were more worldly, they could not help but see that they are, in no small way, responsible for their current condition. This is not meant to be a debate about validating terrorism, I want it to be a debate about why America refuses to take a good long hard look at itself and consider how its' actions have contributed to the current world threat of radical belief systems.
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shawn brandom on January 22, 2008, 12:49 AM
it probably has something to do with this
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Tristan Heindl on February 6, 2008, 4:19 PM
Roger Ailes doesnt like history on the newes. They dont want a well informend intelligent nation of people capable of critical thinking, thats against their interest. COME ON WAKE UP!! All media outlets have been comprimised by big money… why? Media is big money and all the shady connections those whitewashing scumbags have, finacialy connects them all with the medical and military industrial complexes. With the removal of slavery in 1860s it moved from overt slavery to covert slavery inwhich all americans(Think they are SO FREE!) are slaves, other than the elite. Now the elite wage a war on the middle class. The eradication of the middle class is underway. Washington D.C. has been hijacked by some of the most insidious dark people we world has ever had the burden to carry! GOD I HATE YOU STUPID FUCKING LATINO HOUSEWIFES WHO CALL YOURSELVES AMERICAN WHEN YOU DONT KNOW WHO GEORGE WASHINGTON IS! THE DUMBEST MOST UNINFORMED SHEEPLE GO OUT AND VOTE… FOR HILLARY!!!!! OH my god, help us all… They are truly the perfect slaves… Hard working (most 2-3 jobs at a time) good honest Americans who believe everything they are told, THAT WHY THE MIDDLE CLASS IS SO IMPORTANT!!! PEOPLE STILL HAVE TIME TO THINK AND FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT!! Now its only the elite who have time to plot their next shady whitecollar buisness crime venture. Money for these people is meaningless other than 1 aspect; Power has become the ultimate and last aphrodiziac they can hope to fullfill their empty fucking soulless boddies with!
Joseph Mifsud on March 9, 2008, 8:58 PM
Americans have been made too comfortable. Why think about whats right and wrong, when we can be told? I can have Domino’s delivered to my door in 30-minutes, just in time to rot my body and wash my mind with the detergent that is television, all at once. Many Americans are content with that kind of lifestyle.
So as long as the Dominos keeps coming, and the television keeps working, why would we want to get up and ask questions? Why ask questions when we can be told?
We can be told the illegal immigrants are the problem, not that we wanted those jobs anyway.
Al-Queda hate us because we are Americans, not because of our lackluster history in the middle east.
Those explanations put no blame on Americans. Just how we like to hear it.
Sam Benson on March 23, 2008, 8:44 PM
I like Dominos. Its delicious.
The reason that the peopel of America have not taken the time to examine the actions of their government is because they have been brainwashed and oppressed from a very young age. They have examined what they are doing and they think that American “leadership” is what is best for the world. They have been fead this bullshit since they were infants. All through the school system children pledge allegiance to their fascist government and have American neo-conservative ideology taught as fact.
Hessam Parzivand on July 4, 2008, 4:18 PM
I encounter Americans everyday who want to learn more about the Middle East. I think the biggest problem is that they don’t know where to start. Without a doubt, its an intimidating task.
Hessam Parzivand
Author: Winning Middle Eastern Hearts and Minds
Scott Thomson on January 20, 2009, 9:06 PM
Your premise is flawed. By your logic the ignorant American is an “innocent” is[s]he not? Oblivious to every other country, surely this particular American cannot guide world events or outcomes? How is it that they are to blame for the evils of America%u2019s history? Aren%u2019t they equally to blame for the %u2018good%u2019 of America%u2019s history? You do agree there has been great goodness associated with America don%u2019t you?
Human society is getting better by any measure you can name. We are on the cusp of a great leap forward.
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