On Jun 1, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> No disagreement here, but otoh I do not think that the
> US is much worse than other nations in their ritual
> invocations of their national virtues. Europeans do
> pretty much the same, albeit with less bombast and
> drama. The Latin Americans are heavy flag wavers, and
> the Canadians do not leave home without their maple
> leaf either. AFIK, the Chinese and the Africans are
> quite good at patting themselves on their backs, and I
> suspect the Indians are not far behind (Ulhas? Ravi?).
Yeah, but few of the countries you mention have killed millions in imperial wars.
Doug