The Innocence of U.S. Foreign Policy

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1. Americans don't travel much. And if they do go overseas, they have no foreign languages.

We rely on our newspapers and our tee-vee's to tell us what's going on in the world.

But as the writer points out:

Whereas Arab violence generates adrenalin-pumping headlines and is mostly reported outside any serious context — e.g., the U.S. devastation of Iraq, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, the Koran burnings, the ongoing drone assassinations — the violence that emerges from U.S. policy is softened with so much context it’s often a struggle to figure out if anything happened at all.