Reply #73: That's just brilliant logic, ursacorwin. Really great.

[American Tragedy]

"we here in the us, by our actions in iraq and elsewhere, have given up our right to criticize any nation for what we perceive as wrong."

So, if a student at my university commits a crime, I lose the right to criticize anybody who does something wrong, because I am a member of the same school as a criminal? Or if somebody of the same ethnicity as me commits a crime? Or, as you suggest, someone of the same nationality.

How can you justify such sweeping guilt by association, by shared characteristics? I don't know about you, but I've never held individual citizens in other nations to blame for the actions of their respective governments.

Fuck that. I take responsibility for what I've done, not for who I am. When I see wrong anywhere in the world, perpetrated either by the United States or other countries, I maintain the right to speak against it.



Incidentally, I am getting sick of hearing "Well, America did it too..." every time I say something remotely critical of another country. The fact that America has commited a particular action does not make it okay or acceptable.