I would like to see something more surgical for Iraq, a dictatorectomy, as opposed to a bludgeoning. Most Iraqis don't have an opinion about us either way when off camera; they're just trying to make their way through the day.
Most Anti-American sentiment is pretty knee-jerk, and comes from a few individual troublemakers. No one remembers that we're the first on scene when a natural disaster occurs in another country. Watch the rhetoric evaporate as countries seek loans and finanical assistance. Watch the Swiss squirm when Nazi gold is mentioned. Do you know that Belgium 'owned' the Congo in the last half of the 1800's? Do you know what Josef Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" is about?
No one is not guilty. We've been very tame by comparison.
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