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Originally posted by Silver Cheetah:
And yet many are not ready to do the same, and take a good hard look at the causes of the evil wreaked by Osama bin Laden and his band of not so merry men, prefering to believe in some 'America the Beautiful, the Brave and the Generous' myth. (As I've said before, I don't wish to villify America here. Much good is also done. And there is much generousity. But for god's sake, let's open our eyes to some of the other stuff!)
I know you may feel the "America the Beautiful, the Brave, and the Generous" is a myth, but not completely so. Even at that, American's as a whole don't believe we are the greatest and everyone else should bow before US in gratitude. In this forum American's, who in everyday life, complain about what is wrong with America defend her against, what they think is, a verbal attack. Whether it's intended that way or not, we get defensive. The slight admissions of generousity or helpfulness from the US are completely overpowered by the "America complaints". We do open our eyes and look at things, but when people want to shove those things down our throat - we choke on them!