Patrick Lockyer

America is STILL in denial DESPITE great improvements.

I see oceans of improvement in the hawkish love and trust you all put in your President after 9/11. You were sick puppies and seemingly still are somewhat but with signs of recovery. You want to blame Hilary for backing the war when it was treasonable not to. What's that about? You all were compliant in saber rattling and seething to sock it to someone like the playground bully might lash out at anyone within grabbing distance and you all played nicely into Georges need to show daddy how to get Saddam back. You as a nation did that so accept in and go on. Do NOT use it against any would be new leader. I was in Pensacola and saw the gleeful boozy crowd swoon over the might of the Blue Angels and saw few who might gasp and wonder at unleashing that might at a broken dustbowl nation with no air or sea defense after ten years or more of sanctions had reduced them to poverty and disarray. Only now after all this time of reckless waste of lives and resources do you as a nation wonder at the decisions made in your name. You do NOT come off as squeaky clean. Forget it. Come clean and repair is better than denial. Watching that stupid ad for Guiliano disgusts me and is a perfect example of the kind of leader some still want to admire. I cannot envision such an equivalent in the UK. Imagine, we taunt and aggravate the IRA on public television and do it with a stupid smile at the same time? We tell them that we are not going to let them attack us again and that there will never be another bombing like the one on Maggie Thatchers hotel in Brighton again. Are you as a nation just plain stupid? Who IS that advert for anyway? Is it for the gun loving couch soldiers or the ones who make a good living out of the military or is it for the Muslims who think we are biased and brutal in supporting invasion and occupation of Arab territories? Whoever it is for it is not very smart as it could BE a tool for radical recruitment and to show that America is completely in denial even six years later as to any missteps that could motivate a suicide attack against us? I would have been seething if such an advert had appeared in the UK to motivate the IRA any further. Saber rattling did NOT end the IRA terrorist attacks on England but talks and incentives did and America has seemed to have learned NOTHING from all that era obviously. Telling the enemy 'with a smile' that they are sub human and that their grievances are purely that 'they hate our freedom' is just right from 'the planet of the apes'. We are supposed to be smarter than that? This 'new' self righteous 'would be leader' is scarier than the present one but the real scary bit is that too many Americans 'still' admire that 'shoot from the hip' 'Jesse James' type mentality and it will continue to be one reason that this great nation has done badly in winning the hearts and minds 'globally'. You need a new type of leader and I don't think you will see the right person BEFORE the final count because you are all so PHONY. This is a phony nation and the need is to be a compliant phony to succeed. You have to pretend to talk to God. You have to pretend not to be gay. You have to pretend to like guns. You have to pretend to be brutal about the immigration mess. You have to pretend to love all things military. You have to pretend to hate Kerry and Fonda and Baldwin and Kennedy. You have to pretend to love your fellow man. You have to pretend that money is your other God. You have to advocate wealth is more important than health. You have to have perfect teeth even though you have an imperfect heart. You have to be good looking to someone anyway.