You know how it is, daylia -- you can never find a cop around when you need one!! But when you don't they're all over your front yard.

Seriously, I submit you are confusing our culture with the barbarian rituals of our most uncultured. THis is like asserting that the entire Chinese civilization is characterized by MahJonng, opium and Mao.

This nation was not founded on the principles of daytime television or Hollywood, anymore than Canada was. I concur that it deeply unsettling to see the US invading a foreign country uninvited and arguably unprovoked, or at least only indirectly. It hasn't happened since the first quarter of the 20th century with the Phillipines. On the other hand we have never been invaded before, at least since 1812, and clearly we are not handling it very well, collectively. I have nothing to say about the mass stupidity of some of our individual citizens. Our public communication channels have never been in worse condition, from news to music.

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