Reply #30: I think what we are attempting to [View All]

[TallahasseeGrannie]

do is point out hateful behavior, past and present.

If the author had simply titled her piece "I weep for America" or "I am afraid of America" etc. I could have been on board

but instead she maintains: My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.

I supposed that she likes to think of gentle, pastoral England, the quiet isle with no Navy that never once set sail to rape, conquer and imprison. Today we still are slopping about in the messes that the Brits made in the middle East, particularly the partition of Palestine.

And the crack about "acid reflux" the fashionable American sickness? Ah, the Brits...known for their digestive supriority!

And known for their gentle treatment of the Irish, my own ancestors.

No, it still just rubs me wrong. Can't help it! And I will happily agree to disagree with those who have no problem with it.