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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (62876)	5/2/2008 7:59:45 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Respond to of 542532

"Spin number one is that Jeremiah Wright's words were "taken out of context." Like most people who use this escape hatch, those who say this do not explain what the words mean when taken in context. In just what context does "God damn America" mean something different? " Glen Beck played some of the context last night. It didn't make me feel any better about America. If you don't like the way a set of words makes you feel about America, does that make the words evil? His talk was about American foreign policy. Who would claim that we have a perfect foreign policy? That every single thing we do outside our borders only causes the people of other countries to love us? How many warm feelings did we earn when we helped turn Dresden into a fire storm? Thousands upon thousands of women, elderly and children were burned to death. Most of the dead were refugies who were trying to flea the raveges of WW2. The fire storm sucked all of the oxygen out of the city so that even those in bomb shelters were killed. How much love did that earn us? Did the event take place? yes. Am I evil because I mention it? Am I evil because I think there have been mistakes in our foreign policy? That I think we could do a better job in that context? The knee jerk reaction is "yes!" For so much of the American public to automatically assume that America can do no wrong is deeply troubling. Furthermore the assumption that our foreign policy, no matter what it is, can only produce a love for America is also deeply troubling.