US-Armed Israeli Settlers Detain Congressman in West Bank

This is sort of like the arrogant American, Europeans talk about.

#12 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS

Ah yes, tell me more about how you love your country.

Robert E Lee had more patriotism for his country than you do.

I take note of this not to excuse Israeli behavior, which I condemn, but to point out that many/most Americans really have never come to terms with what "American Exceptionalism" and Manifest Destiny" - let alone "imperialism" and "colonialism" - really mean.
#18 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS

Who cares? Just more umbilicus gazing.

You know what "coming to terms means"? You giving, 5th generation decedents someone else's property.

Get on with your life. All this is just meant to make you hate your own country.

It is hard to overstate the hope that followed the fall of apartheid in South Africa in 1994. The newly elected African National Congress was well positioned to move the country into a new era of equality and prosperity for all citizens. South Africa not only had abundant natural resources at its disposal but also boasted a well-developed industrial economy and the continent's top university system.

After nearly a half-century of apartheid, however, South African leaders argued that formal equality wasn't enough. Instead, as the argument went, a transitional period of redress for nonwhites was required. These efforts included affirmative action, land reform, and "black economic empowerment," among others. For example, the government bought white-owned farms and distributed them to black South Africans, many of whom lacked the skills and knowledge to run them successfully. As a result, once-profitable farming operations fell into disrepair and underuse, weakening both economic productivity and food security.
www.city-journal.org

Why can't you admit you have a better system than what existed before? Why wouldn't you want it to go forward, as opposed to going backwards to at time where Indians were raping the women of other tribes with wonton abandon? Its the myth of the noble savage.

Somethings are just better for more people, the American system is better than anything that came before. Embrace it.

Why are Americans so ashamed of themselves?

Your cult turned its back on democracy as soon as their cult leader lost an election.
#23 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

This is funny, CA has had 3 propositions democracy voted for overruled because the Governor chose not to fund it.

You just spout BS thinking it will make people feel bad.

Are you ashamed of yourself? Why? Because of your ethnicity/nationality? Poor babe.

You got nothing Doc.
You whine about Americans not "coming to terms with its bad behavior".

Do you think for one minute if the Indians had won, they would be thinking about "coming to terms with it"?

Shut up already. My ancestors have done extremely atrocious things to people; I don't run around having to "come to terms with it". Just do the best I can gong forward, like everyone else.

I think a lot of morons pretend to be ashamed of themselves and the country.

I agree with much of is to signal their "superior moral virtues" over us mere mortals. Just their egos avoiding reality.

When it's at peak times of anger, it comes out as "I'm so ashamed of this country!!!!"

But its a little worse than this, when that professor said "america deserved 9/11". They are fine with other people paying the price.

But they will not, which is sort of my point, they want other people to be burdened by the cross they profess to believe in. They themselves can't be burdened by it.

Just look at DialAgain, he hasn't given up his ancestral lands to Indigenous nations. Only expects other too.