Bearded Bruce

I consider myself a liberal, but the irrational criticism of the US that comes from much of the left abroad and in this country never ceases to amaze me. You really are wasting your time arguing with people who see Bush as Hitler, or the American clusterfuck in Iraq as new British Colonialism, or NATO as an extension of the American Empire. These are the same people who think, if Britain and the US have nuclear weapons, it's only fair that North Korea, Iran, and South Yemen should have them. It's a way of thinking that sees everything on a shifting scale of relative guilt (how dare we criticize anyone else when we are guilty of...something), and wrong and right as only definable in a cultural context. There's no use approaching them rationally, because they approach the argument using the only rationale they can deal with : Instinctive cynicism.   
Between these knuckleheads and the neo-cons who see Bush as a noble defender of freedom and justice, I fear we'll see a world full of dictatorships, laden with ancient religious grudges, apocalyptic urges, and greedy little wars over ground promised them by god, all armed to the teeth with nukes inside of five years. Then those nasty American Imperialists will get what's comin to em...and so will we all.