I hate to beat a dead horse but when the governemnt of the world's #1 Super Power, the US of A, is so influenced by zealots and extremists it is no wonder that ohters in the world emmulate the big role model...

Bottom line the US needs to be a better role model...

No, I am not placing all the balme here but there are things that the US could do better to support democracy and freedom and that would be to eductae it's own citizens about tolerance and acceptance of other folks beliefs...

Does this gloss over this woman's assasination??? No, it doesn't... But we lowered the bar in the 60's when we allowed our own leaders to be gunned down...

Like it or not, we are role models and since the end of WW II we ahven't been good role models: McCarthism, Vietnam, Corportism. Militariasm, Iraq...

In the words of the late Waylon Jennings, "We need a change"...

I don't blame this on Bush as much failed and arrogant US governemnt since WW II... We really haven't had to put in the hard work and it now shows...

That, my friends, is the way I see it...

BObert