Creusader, check your history. I love this country as much as you do, but I like to keep my eyes open when I do. Never occupied/dominated a country? Try Nicaragua, Cuba, the Phillipines and yes Haiti. Not saying we didn't do some good there, but in all cases there were a fair few locals who died trying to tell us how welcome we weren't. To me, patriotism isn't a blind love that always has to make us out as the white hats. The reason is because its like loving the pretty blond, but what happens when she gets fat? Instead I think we need to see that the US is a nation like any other that has and will act out of pure self interest. To me that's ok, that's what nations are for, its what we pay the government to do. I just get tired of the history as a morality play "patriots" who love a country that never existed and never will exist. Its like the guys who just loved the pretty blond and never learned to love the fat, guntoting, cigar smoking, but still very cool woman she became.
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