Canadian?

Hey, America is a messianic, militaristic nation. The 2004 Democratic Convention showed me that it would take more than Bush the Lesser to change that.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

that's unkind. I'd agree that there is a huge disconnection between American public's view of the disinterested benevolence of its activities and the actual motivations of those who set policy.

AS George H Bush found out in Dubai, even those who are considered to be "beneficiaries" of the system understand that policy is enacted to benefit american corporates, which are beholden to none in their rapacious greed.

The result is that all activities are sold to the american public as being pro-democratic, and with the US msm in its current state how could anyone know differently, whilst every time the affected country suffers. It was Truman who said of the original Samoza in Nicaragua, "he may be a bastard, but he's ourt bastard". This cynicism suggests that US policy is to let their bastards do what they want domestically, so long as the corporates get to come in and pick the bones clean.

And btw I consider myself a true friend of America, one prepared to be honest and criticise.

keep to the Fen Causeway

... some americans would say detached :)

Actually most americans just do nto care.. they are not willingful anything.

If you are not in the game.. you are not in the game.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

Someone has to make you look like the voice of moderation.

_{aspiring to genteel poverty}