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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Why are you referencing the past? Slavery? Indians? It's 2015. And comparatively speaking, America is a shining beacon of freedom...today (except for gay rights, but we will fix that issue soon).

Here's the real deal:  Muslim extremists want to drag the world back to the Middle Ages, complete with beheadings.  They are evil, violent and crazy right this very minute. By comparison, America is an enlightened Utopia.

So here and now (as the great Luther Vandross sang) in 2015 we have a world where civilized countries are having to deal with completely uncivilized countries that don't accept reasonable, commonsense societal norms. And that's beyond frustrating. [/quote]

Your perspective is very one-sided. From the viewpoint of of others, America is a country that supports dictators, supports coups against elected governments, detains and tortures people without charge, eavesdrops on communications, sends flying robots across the globe to kill civilians with impunity, enforces harsh trade conditions, launches invasion after invasion, and generally makes life miserable for others. One of the leaders of the back to the Middle ages complete with beheadings gang is our close and dear ally Saudi Arabia. The reality is that if IS were not anti-Western, but confined its activities to attacking Shia Muslims and communists, the US would probably supply them with arms (which it does now, if unintentionally). How much difference is there really between IS and Saudi Arabia? If you are up to it, watch this video of a woman being publicly beheaded on a street in Mecca by Saudi Authorities:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b89_1421360015

(warning, extremely graphic)

That's a government with which we have close political and economic ties and to whom we supply weapons.

America is only an enlightened utopia when the reality -- much like you would have the past -- is massively airbrushed. 
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