Bill - Surely you are not equating the Nazi concentration camps with the U.S. internment camps during WWII. Not only was there a quantitative difference -- millions of prisoners versus thousands -- but there was a significant qualitative difference too (there were no reports of ovens, gas chambers, or other wide-scale exterminations in the American camps). Likewise, the lethal Nazi and Fascist WWII dictatorships are not really comparable to the Jim Crow laws in the United States or the South American dictators you reference. This blame-America-first attitude that we repeatedly see from the American political Left gets pretty tiresome -- especially when it argues for such false equivalency.
The article is guilty of the same type of blame-America-first attitude. Although I was opposed to the Iraq war from the start, I would submit that you cannot really blame the Americans for all of the ills in Iraq like the civil wars and ethnic cleansing, just as you cannot blame the NYPD for crime in Manhattan. It is the criminals who perpetrate the crime not the cops.
Finally, to the comments above asking where is the Humanitarian Aid to the Palestinians: we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians over the last few years. Are we also responsible for all of the reprehensible acts of some Palestinians and supporters against Israel because of our aid the way the article and commentators want to hold us responsible for all of the internal strife in Iraq?
Bill - Surely you are not equating the Nazi concentration camps with the U.S. internment camps during WWII. Not only was there a quantitative difference -- millions of prisoners versus thousands -- but there was a significant qualitative difference too (there were no reports of ovens, gas chambers, or other wide-scale exterminations in the American camps). Likewise, the lethal Nazi and Fascist WWII dictatorships are not really comparable to the Jim Crow laws in the United States or the South American dictators you reference. This blame-America-first attitude that we repeatedly see from the American political Left gets pretty tiresome -- especially when it argues for such false equivalency.
The article is guilty of the same type of blame-America-first attitude. Although I was opposed to the Iraq war from the start, I would submit that you cannot really blame the Americans for all of the ills in Iraq like the civil wars and ethnic cleansing, just as you cannot blame the NYPD for crime in Manhattan. It is the criminals who perpetrate the crime not the cops.
Finally, to the comments above asking where is the Humanitarian Aid to the Palestinians: we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians over the last few years. Are we also responsible for all of the reprehensible acts of some Palestinians and supporters against Israel because of our aid the way the article and commentators want to hold us responsible for all of the internal strife in Iraq?