This is the face of America the rest of the World sees. No matter how many “real patriots” attack as traitors, anyone who dare criticize our benevolent democracy spreading mission, they see the dead babies and ruined cityscapes. In my opinion, the uprising in the Middle East is a direct response to the Western genocide of Muslims. They have nothing left to lose by standing up to the despots installed or supported by the West.

It seems that the death, torture and destruction of an entire country is their fault for hating our liberties. Crazy bs passes for information and it’s stunning how quickly the populous accepts our aggression as merciful or defensive or sanctioned by god.

I used to wonder how an entire population accepts the marginallization and officially sanctioned hostility towards their own citizens and people in foreign lands who’ve done nothing to them. In this climate watching our country implode over the building of a Muslim community center in NY and the nation wide uproar over any Mosques planned or expanded, I mean the only thing missing was the pitchforks and torches, I realized how.

Boy, you have to give those Guantanamo inmates a lot of credit for resourcefulness. Imagine a prisoner, alone in a yard, having the ability and agility to climb a tall outdoor light post, unscrew the bulb, hang upside-down and plug his genitalia into the socket in order to commit suicide!

Obama campaigned on the issue of closing Guantanamo (rightly) and did an abrupt 180 degree change after he was elected.

Occupying Cuba’s Guantanamo was wrong then and it is wrong now.

Perhaps the Obama-who-gets-no-credit-for-courage might take the political risk involved in actually dismantling this torture facility . . . but Obama is more likely to complain about the news becoming public and damaging his Global Crusade for Democracy . . .