Taking Credit, and Blame, and Fearing For One's Country

WHETHER WE CARE TO ADMIT IT, the U.S.A. is a racist country; study after study affirms this. The point is not arguable, which is perhaps why so many Americans argue the point. America has a long and virulent history of racism, and an equally impressive record of denying this truth. No society in world history has been as racist. By nature humans refuse to accept unpleasant truths. European-Americans are as afraid of this truth as they are afraid of African-Americans. At the University of Missouri, African-Americans are either fabricating offense for some perverted purpose, such as making trouble or getting attention, as they are being accused of, or they genuinely feel the sting of racism. Which is the more likely? In the United States of Amnesia, the fun house never ends. Barbaric as the Islamic terrorists behavior is, it is not unmotivated. Americans need to understand; when a foreign army half a million strong invades, conquers, and occupies an Islamic country for over a decade, feathers are bound to be ruffled. We forget that the Islamic State would not exist today if Saddam Hussein were still in power, as he would be, but for American intervention - an intervention which, quite truthfully, was predicated on a deliberate deceit by President Bush the first. Bush told Saddam to invade Kuwait, with america's blessing, then, once the deed had been done, changed his mind, and waxed indignant. It was a trap, deliberately set, as a pretext to war, invasion, and the acquisition of oil fields. Feeling betrayed, rightly so, Saddam evidently hatched a murder plot against Bush, which provided Bush the second with a personal pretext to invade Iraq again. You'll recall that his public pretext was weapons of mass destruction, which, you'll recall, never existed. The mistake the French made was in rubber stamping American imperialism. When sufficiently angered, people are willing to die to kill their enemies. That is the state of mind of America's, and France's enemies. Self righteous arrogance is always the attitude of violently obtained empires. Thomas Jefferson said it best: I fear for my country, when I reflect that God is just."