who does NOT have blood on their hands? Lichtenstein? Andorra?

" The USA is very powerful country and it didn't get that way by accident ".....sorry, but that IS how it got that way!

If this land had been settled by China or Spain or Denmark or Hottentots... instead of by 'mostly' people from the UK, the very fact of it being large, temperate in climate and rich in resources would have made it a world power...and we can debate forever how other cultures would have used this area had THEY by accident of history been thrust into the world stage as stewards of such a place!....(yes, I know all about the Native Americans and how they were cheated & mistreated...would others have done better by them? Perhaps....)

The fact is, the USA is SO big, with SO many issues and so many cultures and ideas mixed into its history, and so much diversity in its various states, it's a wonder it functions at all...but MOST of us really do TRY

No one is trying to 'whitewash' anything right now, real OR perceived...we are just trying to comprehend how ***ANYONE** can process reality so grotesquely as to think we deserved THAT....innocent civilians destroyed en masse to make some arcane socio/political/religious point!!! How could ANYONE think they would win a point with those tactics? and how DARE anyone suggest that with the smoke and rubble of that cowardly, hate-filled attack still filling our TV screens, that we sit back and reflect on our sins?....there will be plenty of time for analysis and recriminations...right now we are busy...we have dead to bury...as soon as we can find them.........