[Liberty4eva]

Originally Posted by lostalex

The horrors against the Native American's and African American's (there were far more slaves in the carribean and south america than north america, but we don't hear much about that) were a result of EUROPEAN colonialism, nothing America did.

See, there you go again. It's true that there were a higher proportion of slaves in the West Indies and, going one step further, it was even technically true that the slaveowners in the states were far more humane to the slaves than the slaveowners in the carribean. But again: so what? Try to stop thinking in terms of how less bad we are to other nations and start trying to think about how much better we ought to be. If the defense for Casey Anthony tried to make the point that, yes she killed her daughter, but she's a puppy dog compared to other murderers, they'd be laughed out of the court.

Maybe you're misinterpriting what I'm saying. There are some people who think the US is a force for good and there are some people who think the US is responsible for most of the ills in the world. I don't fall into either camp and if you think I fall into the latter, well I don't.