Well actually I figured you for a reasonable fairly intelligent person. The incapacity to acknowledge the great harm done to many people throughout the world at the machinations of American greed demonstrates instead that your blinded by patriotism and plant youself firmly in the camp of "American Manifest Destiny". It's unrealistic to believe that anything taken at the point of a gun by a nation so demonstrably bereft of integrity when it comes to questions of morality justice and trust, might be viewed as anything but the engine of terrorism and lawlessness. We are (participants here at CC) but one voice of the greater mosaic of our nations so it should be an opportunity for clarity and unbiased discussion in an objective sense regarding world politics and dynamics. Canadians admit to abuse of immigrants (Chinese, Germans, Italians) and the on-going debate over the injustices perpetrated on our native people's by Canadian government suggests that many more Canadians are "in-touch" with and willing to acknowledge that mistakes have been made and are being made... Not the pitch we get from Americans here at CC by any stretch of the imagination. As far as your presentations go, it's the same arrogance and isolationist jingoisms made famous by America's political structure from its earliest days. While patriotism is to be expected, as hard as it might be for you to believe, America doesn't exist in some isolated insulated and separate region of the universe. One might reasonably expect some willingness to acknowledge that you are the creators of your own problems to a significant degree but instead, the position taken by most Americans is that everything the American military and American government has done over the past hundred years represents the "right-thinking" of all Americans versus the imbecilic ravings of the rest of the people living on this planet. Out of touch is one facet, and deep denial is another.
