[Purrybonker]

I posted this as part of my continuing effort to expose some Americans to the possibility that childhood or romantically simplistic notions of "good and evil" may not be valid as a premise for international relations.

It does appear to many of us outside of the US that your administration sells an apparently gullible populace some pretty absurd premises on the basis of white hats vs. black hats.

This reference was intended to illustrate the irony that the US is the worst offender in the world in one of the most basic measurements of what defines an undemocratic government - the imprisonment of it's population. The obvious irony is that the American government uses the same "denial of fundamental freedoms" to justify invading and killing the citizens of a foreign country (Iraq, Afganistan, etc., etc., etc,...) to the American people.

Americans are the world leaders in putting pragmatism into meaningful practise. Why then does the American "right wing" seem to have difficulty accepting that the actions of their government are based on pragmatic foundations (e.g. security of oil supply) rather than fairy tails of ridding the world of evil?

Such acknowledgment would indicate intellectual maturity rather than subscription to "conspiracy theory.