Our [America's] yearning for democracy, that’s about on the level of Joseph Stalin talking about the Russian commitment to freedom, democracy, and liberty for the world. It’s the kind of statement you laugh about when you hear it from commissars or Iranian clerics, but you nod politely and maybe even with awe when you hear it from their Western counterparts.
To criticize our transcendent purpose “is to fall into the
error of atheism, which denies the validity of religion on similar grounds” —
which is a good comparison. It’s a deeply entrenched religious belief. It’s so
deep that it’s going to be hard to disentangle it. And if anyone questions
that, it leads to near hysteria and often to charges of anti-Americanism or
“hating America” — interesting concepts that don’t exist in democratic
societies, only in totalitarian societies and here, where they’re just taken
for granted.
-Noam Chomsky
You can read the rest @
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/02/03/why-its-legal-when-the-us-does-it/
Our misguided belief in our own righteousness can also be explained by the following scripture:
Our misguided belief in our own righteousness can also be explained by the following scripture:
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 KJV
"Strong delusion" - That's America in a nutshell.
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