"You forgot Panama."
A Guardian report once gave a list of over 50 countries the US had dropped bombs on since the end of WWII.
"How can you categorize me as an American as being bad"
Nobody is suggesting that you are 'bad' Jayto - the question was about America, not Americans - and the answer, as far as some of us are concerned is 'maybe America is not as great as she thinks it is'. To categorise Americans as being 'bad' because they are Americans would be as racist as suggesting that all Muslims or Irish are terrorists or potential terrorists.
As far as some of us are concerned, while Guantanamo Concentration Camp, internment without trial, torture (be it by or on behalf of the US), collateral damage, extreme rendition and all the other human rights outrages carried out by the US in "The fight against tourism" as your ex-leader so quaintly put it, America will be a country to be feared rather than respected and admired.
One of the great sayings of the past 'before you were born' is "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem" - in other words, if you allow your government to carry out such actions on your behalf you re bound to be judged along with them.
I treasure my friendships with the draft-dodgers I stood shoulder-to-shoulder with on the anti - Viet Nam war demonstrations - they were the real war (or maybe peace) heroes.
Jim Carroll