I know I said I was checking out, but I just can't seem to get away from it quite yet. I was not suggesting the the US was inclined or arguing for genocide. I was admittedly unclear. What I meant was some of the people posting to this section and topic HERE seem to be "dancing" close to such an attitude. It seems clear enough to me that there are more than one here who wouldn't have a problem with it.

I've read post after post of philosphical wrangling about just about every possible aspect of this topic with one glaring exception. Apart from some sort of massive retaliatory response, no one seems to have the slightest idea of how to resolve the problem nor do they seem to care about formulating one. Outside of Bayern, Bedouin and a few other voices crying in the wilderness, all I'm reading is window-dressed language of hate, intolerance and prejudice. Broad sweeping generalizations combined with fascist justification for violence.

I have taught European history at both the high school and college level for almost two decades. The degrees I hold and the scholarships I've been awarded for advanced study in totalitarianism provide the vocabulary and insight to the issues which are resonating here. What I am reading here, simply by substituing "jew" for Muslim and "Germany" for the U.S. and "Nazism" for democracy and there is no discernable difference between the propaganda and violence of Hitler's or Stalin's parrotting, fear-ridden and sychophantic worshippers and the rantings of hatred that are being overtly or covertly promoted as inviolable truth here.

Suffice it to say that those engaging in it will not agree or even see it that way. I wouldn't expect it. It's sophistic objectivity; they've already arrived at their conclusions. All they're doing is mucking about in the cesspool rearranging the filth.

Tad

Patriotism: Supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. M. Twain