"Bash America, and they love it!"

Doug, do you really think that people who were born in America take great pleasure in critisising it? Do you think we wake up every morning thinking gleefully to ourselves, "What can we find to complain about today?"

I can think of lots of ways I'd rather spend my time and energy than to be upset and disappointed and frightened for my birth country, believe me.

But because I was born in a land which holds such promise, and so many opportunities, and has such power in the world, I am using my education and experiences (many of which derived while living and traveling in my birth country) the only way I think is responsible; by not hiding from the truth when I learn it, and not being afraid to speak against the lies when I discover them.

That is my American Legacy.

..xx..e