And I am not Anti-American for saying that. Apparently the definition of Patriotism has evolved to include ignorantly proclaimed allegiance to your country without questioning your public figures.
If anything, a true patriot questions everything and evaluates it intellectually. Just like the people that remained intellectual when they tried to pass the Patriot Act indeed voted against it, but everyone that was on the emotionally reactive war path supported it whole heartedly.
The same intellectuals that did not blindly follow the war path continued to oppose the war in general and voted against it. Ron Paul was one of these leaders.
But the irony is that the US armed the Taliban in the first place to fight against a conflicting political ideal (communism). And that is only one of the major mistakes the US has made in the last 50 years.
To name a few others:
-The engineering of Haitis poverty by taking advantage of ignorant and corrupt politicians and convincing them to end their internal rice industry and import our less expensive rice (then after rice prices went up from imports they had no industry locally and sold off all of their resources and slash/burned their farm land).
-The testing of STDs on Guatemalan prisoners and the mentally ill without knowledge of the side effects
-The testing of birth control on Puerto Rican prostitutes without knowledge of the side effects
-The use of torture on prisoners to get information (proven not to work and taking our morality to the lowest point possible)
-The creation of the patriot act
The list goes on and on. As citizens it is our responsibility to know what our government is doing and put a stop to it.
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