Says Riverbend:
…when I hear talk about “anti-Americanism” it angers me. Why does American identify itself with its military and government? Why is does being anti-Bush and anti-occupation have to mean that a person is anti-American? We watch American movies, listen to everything from Britney Spears to Nirvana and refer to every single brown, fizzy drink as “Pepsi”.
I hate American foreign policy and its constant meddling in the region… I hate American tanks in Baghdad and American soldiers on our streets and in our homes on occasion… why does that mean that I hate America and Americans? Are tanks, troops and violence the only face of America? If the Pentagon, Department of Defense and Condi are “America”, then yes- I hate America.
I hate American foreign policy and its constant meddling in the region… I hate American tanks in Baghdad and American soldiers on our streets and in our homes on occasion… why does that mean that I hate America and Americans? Are tanks, troops and violence the only face of America? If the Pentagon, Department of Defense and Condi are “America”, then yes- I hate America.
We are not all tanks and guns. We are not all lying liars like W and Condi and Donald and Evil Dick. The face of our foreign policy and our adventurism and interventionism is not the true face of Americans. Our government has been hijacked by a cabal of thugs and incompetents who compound their crimes against the world by pretending to speak with the voice of all Americans.
I pray that, like this unnamed woman living amidst the terror of Baghdad, that the people of the world will be able to make the distinction between American foreign policy — the creation of a few ideologues — and the American people. It’s a distinction that is too subtle for our Idiot-in-Chief to make.
