Reply #70: You either have an underdeveloped sense of shame or

[EFerrari]

you haven't been paying attention. I sort of envy either possibility.

Our foreign policy isn't "transitory" when it encompasses most of the country's history. You might, for example, go check out why Hawaii is a state. That would be a good starting point. You can pass on how we got the Southwest even if people like Grant wrote home from that war that it made them ashamed to be fighting it.

And it's too late to tell us to take a flying leap. W did that when he got himself appointed president in 2000. We've been airborne for years now.

/typin'