So sad and so true! I am so angry at being so angry for so long...I fear that those among us who keep insisting that America is the greatest country on the planet are wrong. For me that is a very unsettling revelation. Being a 59 year old veteran and longtime wobbly, I remember well the 60's and 70's activism. How simple minded it seems now...

All too true - these people miss the fact that they are not going to be the ones who clean up the mess they made. It will be their children. I am not terribly excited of the future...

Historically this isn't a new thing. You think the US was able to expand over the continent by being nice guys? America has always been like this, it's just never came to light in such brutal fashion. Yes there needs to be some clean up in America after all, "when all you have is a hammer you see all problems as nails." Sorry if this offends but Americans seem to belive this is a new thing and that they were pure until 9/11, simply not true.

you are certainly entitled to your opinion but you wouldn't be hearing these sentiments so much from so many different people if there wasn't truth in it.

when depression-era conservative folks like my grandparents are worried then i think we all should be worried.

but we can't give up on america. we must stay and fight for it.

"but we can't give up on america. we must stay and fight for it."

Why do that when you've all found something much easier: keep insulting and ridiculing the country?

"I fear that those among us who keep insisting that America is the greatest country on the planet are wrong"

Then go live somewhere else.

You don't like it here Joe, then go post comments somewhere else.

"how low the moral bar has been lowered"

Speaking of morals and those who support "moral values" Has anyone heard the story of Tom Delay and Saipan. I thought that indentured servants were against every ideal of the U.S. and was abolished with slavery. How is this moral and where is the value? Maybe they meant NO morals and the value is money to their PACs

Check this out

This is happening in a commonwealth of the U.S. and is well known, but not addressed.

P.S. Did you know that they also have abortions pushed upon the workers in these camps - isn't that contradictory to Delay's take on the "culture of life"?

Let's not forget the US involvement to destabalize Chile leading to the 1973 coup.

Let's not forget the US involvement in Operator Ajax to overthrow an elected government in Iran in 1953.

Let's not forget US leaving the Afghans high and dry; leaving behind a civil war that bred the terrorists (Osama bin ladin) who fought with the US against the USSR.

Let's not forget the US giving weapons to both Iraq and Iran during the bloody Iran-Iraq war.

Just a few examples of how US hasn't been all that good in the past. These admissions of involvements came long after; just like we're likely to hear the actual facts about some of the current ulterior motives long after we can do anything about it.