I'm sorry, but I don't think someone who doesn't live and pay taxes in the US gets to tell us that we are responsible for what happens in southeast Asia.

Had the US helped Vietnam shake off the colonialists rather than helping the colonnialists subjugate that country, the war in Vietnam would never have happened, and Vietnam would have been a US ally with a government that was friendly to the US and to capitalism. It was US imperialism that caused the war in Vietnam.

No, I'm sorry. I don't feel at all safe and protected. We are well on our way to becoming a fascist dictatorship in this country, complete with torture, imprisonment without recourse to any kind of legal protections, spying on and serveilance of citizens, and "private security contractors" (mercenaries), whose only allegiance is to the people who sign their paychecks, to help them keep the people of this country in line. And now they're in the process of bankrupting this country and turning it into a third world banana republic. Nope. Sorry. Definitely not safe and protected.

Auschwitz was possible because the Nazis had established certain scapegoat groups of people who were assigned the status of "not quite human". We are also well on our way toward becoming like them in that respect as well, with our establishing Muslims as the current scapegoat group, and our mass slaughter of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan (and if the Bush administration gets its way, Iran as well).

I'm sure it's all very nice to be sitting far away in another country and telling those of us who are in this country how nice it is to be here. Sorry, but I'm not buying it.