The folks who criticize America most tend to be non-Americans with extensive experience in the US or moderate to liberal Americans living there now.
Gee. I guess all those Iraqis who are bombing our troops there, criticizing us, etc., have extensive experience here in the US. Also, of course, those French who burn down McDonalds restaurants as a symbol of resistance to American ideas.
(Or, of course, I suppose they could be the ones not criticizing us most -- the intellectuals who write columns for LeMonde are criticizing us more than the bombers.)
And, of course, those Iranian students who took over our embassy and burned our flags and shouted anti-American slogans. All spent years here, I now learn. Or else, weren't really criticizing us. It was just a love spat, I guess.
And the AlQaeda fighters who mouth anti-American slogans as they rouse local anti-American fervor. Must, I now learn, have spent years here in the US.
Gosh. Your extensive travel has made you aware of facts that, frankly, I hadn't realized before. All I can say is that none of those folks lived in MY community. Wonder where they live in the US that they get that extensive experience that makes they criticize us. Must be the other Washington, and Hollywood. Yep. Those intellectual areas must be the ones that train the anti-Americans.
And to think, we normal Americans had no idea of all this. |
