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September 28, 2007
The United States of Affray
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The United States of Affray
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This is a bit old, but worth a minute of your time anyway. You probably saw that Fred Thompson caught flack from the Washington Post for saying in his stump speech that Americans have "shed more blood for other people's liberty than any other combination of nations in the history of the world.''
Well here's the other side of the coin, courtesy of Australian columnist Philip Adams, who serves up a grotesquely distorted view of America that begins with this:
How do I kill thee? Let me count the ways Americans have killed others and each other throughout their history. Oh, the body count might have been higher in Hitler's war or Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China. Nonetheless, no nation has a more bloodstained history than the US. And no other nation has such a culture of violence.
Take your blood pressure pills before reading the rest.