The Grand (white) "American DELUSION"??
In 1974, as a Major in the Air Force, I decided to "drop in" on my son's 6th grade class in a school on Base.
It was a History Class, and the teacher told the children that "slavery was good for blacks, because it "humanized" them. I stopped the class (in uniform) and told the children that the teacher was WRONG. What she told them was her opinion; and not fact. I immediately withdrew my son from that school and placed him in a private school that had better teachers and better programs.
Fast forward forty years, and I hear a female caller on C-Span, today, utter the words: "We're a force for good in the world". She was defending the Cheney/Bush campaign to attack Iraq. After Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq; she clings fervently to that blind belief in support of the Foreign Policy this country has practiced since WW-II. I don't recommend outright rejection of that mind-set; I implore the reader to investigate that belief!
That ubiquitous "we"; when uttered in the Media by a white of that type, almost ALWAYS excludes blacks and non-whites! It is assumed that we will adopt their views. Their "America" consists of older, white, citizens from the Deep South. In recent years that contingent of our population has spread farther West ,and North, to form our RED STATE America: a growing collection of impoverished, violently religious, under-educated, states.
The C-Span caller was protesting a presentation by Hillary Mann Leverett, Senior Adjunct Professorial Lecture School of International Service, American University, about our current predicament in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/leverett.cfm.
To cut through the Right/Left "Bull-sh*t" in the MEDIA, and get an astoundingly clear picture of our predicament in the Middle East, and how we got here, you must hear what this lady has to say! The story reaches back to Nixon/Kissinger; the late Carter years; the late G.H.W. Bush years, and proceeds through
Cheney/Bush,and 9/11. The story; not one I've heard ANYWHERE before, makes sense of what, to fore, has been a jumble of nonsense; except to the most hard-lined Neo-Con, "Conservative", or Southern Bigot.
The sad part of the story is that these people have inhabited our State Department, and the FMS part of our Defense Department for decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Military_Sales. Until this is changed, the madness will continue; in the Middle East and in Africa, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her story will make clear the "mind-set" that drives the supporters of our foreign policy, and, lately, the cabal that is forming to permanently shut down the proper function of our Constitutional Government by taking over the House of Representatives.
Stay Vigilant! Free Your Mind! Learn what "else" has been "hidden" from us by our Politicians! McCain and Graham are the "leaders" who most insist on continuing this madness!
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