I don't care if you're pissed off, Bill. You have a right to your opinion, and I have a right to mine, and we have now heard each other's opinions. And that's fine with me.

I don't blame it all on Obama! Certainly not! Obama's coincidental. He's the straight man in the black comedy that is American policy. I blame it on the ruthless imperial system that he is presently in the unenviable position of representing for the American public to focus on. He's not in charge of it, and he never was. He is just the outward face that it shows to the public, and he will be replaced soon enough by another temporary outward face...and it won't matter much who it is.

Many of you, like mg for example, are true believers in the basic good of the USA (not surprisingly!)...and if that good were to mean what is in its people in a general sense, I'd agree with you! Most Americans are good people who act in good faith. Your faith in your government and its military and its secret ops organizations like the CIA, however, is tragically misplaced...rather as the faith of millions of well-intentioned Germans in their government was tragically misplaced between 1933 and 1945. Quite similar to that.

They were loyal to what they knew, and what they'd grown up knowing. So are you. I'm not at all surprised by that. It's a perfectly normal human reaction called "patriotism". You're just doing what most people have done throughout history, naturally believing in the familiar home system that you were born in and live under.

But don't expect me to believe in it.