"none" <""Mark\"@(none)"> wrote in message
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> cybercat wrote:
>> "none" <""Mark\"@(none)"> wrote
>>> I live in Washington State, and so when my clock radio woke me that
>>> morning, it was an awakening to a changed world. I had never before been
>>> fully aware of the true depth of the hatred that some barbarian
>>> "civilizations" have oh-so-carefully cultivated toward the US.
>>
>> You don't have any friend raised in what we charmingly call "the Third
>> World," do you?
> Why would you ask such an utterly irrelevant question?

It is not irrelevant to suggest that the hatred many nations have for the
United States was not "oh so carefully cultivated" but created by the United
States government over decades. Our arrogance in meddling with the
governments of other nations, particularly smaller, poorer "third world"
countries knew no bounds for many years. We are not blameless in the chain
of events that led to the mass murders in the World Trade Center on
September 11, 2001. Power means responsibility. We should have been keeping
a closer eye on what our own nation was doing prior to the September 11,
2001 massacre.