Why do they hate us?

[CHIMO]

Why do they hate use so? That question was asked by many Americans after 11 September 2001. The query is based entirely on ignorance, which, by itself, is a result of a chronic American fault - a near total apathy towards history.

The vast majority of Americans are clueless regarding the past of faraway lands as well as their own. That is highly dangerous in so much as we share this planet with other ethnicities, and historical illiteracy breeds misunderstanding.

George Santayana wrote: "Those who forget the past are condemned to relive it," or words to that effect, and many believe him, allowing the caveat that the principle also applies to those who never learned history in the first place.

However, centuries of Western domination are kind of hard to forget and that will remove any holier-than-thou attitude American negotiators may have.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/64584808-10C2-4CCF-80F2-82E0631B1C27.htm

[Ruffhowse]

1. The real question is why would anyone like or trust us after so

much of our brutal history. Ask Native Americans if the US can be trusted to honor agreements and treaties, or treat those they conquer with any dignity. The treatment of Native Americans by the US is an era that ranks with the Holocaust in depravity and evil. Or take Hawaii. Nevermind there are native peoples already there, Uncle Sam moves right in and takes over from a sovereign government and basically hands the country over to corporate interests of the US, a pattern to be repeated over and over again as the US deals with third world countries it exploits. No, the pattern of Iraq has been laid countless times before by this "great" nation, and we foolish Americans allow our corrupt government and corporations to white wash all the bad images away and leave us with the official "sanitized" history so we can all feel good about being tried and true Americans.

[illbill]

2. Thanks for the article.

:)

[indepat]

3. They hate us for our freedoms, our freedom to do what we wish, when we

wish it, where we wish it, and to whom we wish to do it do.