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Originally Posted by GreyWolf
What bothers me most about this is the general apathy of the American population to this squandering of their accumulated moral capital. As a supposed bastion of justice and human rights, this should be sending shock waves through the US, led by the American media. That it does not is a reflection of America's insular society and its inability to truly understand the global situation. As the only current superpower, the US government feels itself above reproach for its actions, and cannot conceive that it is losing the moral high ground on all fronts.
And it is sadder still that the Americans who do realise this, and care about it, and would like to change things, are heard only by those countrymen who already agree with them, and cannot raise any real outrage at what is being done to them through guilt by citizenship.
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This is absolutely true. The apathy of Americans when it comes to acknowledging the ugly side of 'what we do' is as much a tragedy as the actual crimes we've committed. You know, when I was in my teens and early 20s I believed that if people really knew what we'd been up to - at that time it was School of Americas, Panama, Nicaragua, Grenada, etc. - that there would be such an outpouring of anger and demand for cessation of all unjust meddling and warmaking, that the entire country would come to a standstill. Yep, I was a real starry-eyed fool.