Americans routinely dismiss engaging in diplomacy with their adversaries on the ground that their enemies cannot be trusted and that only force will work. Does it ever occur to us that that’s the way we are perceived overseas?
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Re “Does it ever occur to us”: In a word, no. It follows from our efficiently UK-endowed racist, imperialist supremacy … recently modernized for the US, the reigning hegemon, by the Saint Obumma as “exceptionalism” … that literally prevents objective thought, on all issues, by the government and the populace. The corollary is US cosmic hypocrisy, clinically “projection,” but recently appearing on interwebs commentary as the much more accessible “accusation as confession.” Considering the self-humiliation inflicted by continuous said “confession” … apparently that effect doesn’t occur to most of us either.
Nice art today, Ted