POSTED RESPONSE TO A RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
"Typical santimonious [sic] Canadians who hate Americans with a vengeance. Any decision which affronts Americans is applauded. This to the nation that buys 75% of your products. I never touch Canadian products and lose no opportunity to tell others of your hatred."
The logical and emotional confusion exhibited in that post tells the entire story of why Americans earn the dislike of so much of the world.
No, Canadians do not hate Americans, but many do hate the ugly actions and words of Americans.
Indeed, that is the case for the entire planet. Few people have affection for the poisonous cocktail of arrogance, ignorance of others, bullying, and bombing those you disapprove of.
Speaking of mass murderers, how about the captain and crew of the warship, USS Vincennes, which, during its observations of the agonizing Iran-Iraq War (a war US policy worked to prolong), managed to shoot down an Iranian civilian airliner with 300 souls aboard.
There was no mercy, no apology, and no proper compensation - just a cowardly avoidance of responsibility for the atrocity committed.
Lockerbie was clearly vengeance by someone, and no one truly knows who. The man Scotland released was almost certainly fitted up by the CIA in response to the immense political pressure of unthinking people like the author of the quote above.
There are serious issues with American behavior in the world outside its borders, and when Americans stubbornly refuse to recognize that ugly reality, and indeed insist that they are victims of hate and terror, they earn everyone's sound disapproval.
That isn't hate, that's human decency and ethics at work.
