Reply #19: I agree.

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I find myself avoiding threads that involve foreign affairs because I know that, invariably, somebody is going to say America is at fault. It doesn't matter what the topic is; it doesn't matter how convoluted or ludicrous an argument one has to make to blame America; it doesn't matter how much evidence about the loathsomeness of our opponents (Zarqawi, Iran, the cartoon nuts) you have to ignore. Somebody is going to say it's all our fault.

Look, I don't support Bush. I think he's an awful president, and I despise Cheney. I've always voted Democratic. I've never voted for a Republican.

But the willingness of some people here to believe anything (anything!) that puts Bush in a bad light, even if that means implicating America and our military in the most horrible crimes, is really depressing. Just because we oppose Bush doesn't mean that all the bad things in the world are America's fault.