This has always been something which "My Country - Right Or Wrong" types fail to understand. The USA doesn't exist in a bubble; our actions have consequences. Actual people are affected, but unless they are Somewhere In America, they don't matter.

Mahmoud is representative of "feriners" I have met - even though there is so much hot air about how bad anyone who wasn't born in the USA must be because they aren't "exceptional," they are still hopeful regarding future relations with us. Even after we have bombed their country into a previous century.

Thanks, Sean. It's when the tears don't well up that you know there is a problem...

by MedfordTim on 04/15/2009 10:14:24 AM EST