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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [qb]I see. We're getting closer to an "ideal", therefore, we shouldn't really worry about all the rest of it. Is that the argument?[/qb][/QUOTE]No, quite the contrary. I'm not saying we should disregard our failings, but we should also take into account our successes. If I feel pride in being American, it isn't because our leader and his puppetmasters are doling out concessions to their oil-baron crones and spoiling our environment and reputation in global politics. It's for the ideals which laid the ground rules for our society and which have enabled us to accomplish so many wonderful things. The inadequacies and hypocrisy of the current regime is that much more hateful to me because it undermines these ideals. To me America is a bunch of guys zooming around on the moon in a dune-buggy, Dr. Martin Luther King speaking to a thronging crowd in our nation's capital, the Peace Corp, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs building a computer in their garage and becoming millionaires. It's turning on NPR (or visiting message boards) and hearing a broad spectrum of support and disdain for the leaders of our nation and not fearing that soldiers will come into our homes and beat us up and/or kill us on our lawns. It's going to the grocery store and having to remember no only what brand of fresh squeezed OJ I like, but also the level of pulp and whether I want it with extra calcium. In the America that I love, a bunch of war-mongers spurring foreign dissent under the auspices of freedom to line their allready preposterously fat pockets is an abomination and an abberation. If this nation is anything at all like the place it was supposed to be, these people can't last long here. I had to say it every morning staring at the flag with my hand on my heart, and I never understood until I was much older: "...with liberty and justice for all." So, I'm not even sure what we are arguing about anymore. Should the USA submit to the authority of a rational and globally ratified world war crimes court? Yes. Does the fact that Our Fearless Leader is opposed to this idea mean that all Americans are shameful creatures worthy of the contempt of the rest of the world? Hardly. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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