"For example, shall we examine the history of a few other countries? Where shall we start, eh?"
I apologise if I have mistaken your posting; but that alters nothing here.
I repeat - if we have got it wrong about America's past and present record regarding human rights, please point out where and stop hiding behind 'Anti-Americanism' - it really isn't the case.
You've heard the accusations and been given the examples; now where did we get it wrong?
We really don't have to rummage round your history - we lived through the period and it was a formative influence on our thinking.
I couldn't agree more about the record of other countries - Britain in particular; "the Empire on which the sun never set, nor the blood ever dried". I would be the last person in the world to defend the inhumanity carried out in the name of 'Great' Britain, from Amritsar to Tony Blair's 'weapons of mass destruction', but this in no way absolves the US from its not-so-distant past and present behaviour, and acting as an apologist for it drags every American down to the level of its leaders.
Jim Carroll