Renatam,

I'm not trying to knock you personally, but you painfully point out a major weakness of many of us here in the USA: we don't know our own history.

What we think of ourselves and the actual truth just doesn't line up. I'm not saying we should hate ourselves, I'm saying we should understand that we have, on many occasions, had incidents of brutality and murder of innocent people.

Just one example: after we won the Spanish-American war the Philippine people (a Spanish colony made up of good Christian people) justifiably expected that the USA - the leader of the "free" world - would free them from Spanish rule. Instead, we sent our warships across the world and killed tens of thousands of them to put down their bid for independence.

Ask yourself this: Did these people do anything to the USA? Did they threaten the USA? Should their homeland belong to USA?

If not, do you think killing people in an obviously weaker country that was no threat to us justified?

Just my humble opinion and something for you to think about.