Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@gmail.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 11/20/06, Doug Henwood <DHENWOOD@PANIX.COM>wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > > Well, we then must ask: who gave a chance to those who blow up > > helpless civilians? We, among others, have. Juan Cole is decent > > enough to acknowledge that responsibility. > > Eh? Where did Cole acknowledge his own deep and crushing personal > responsibility? <BLOCKQUOTE>Our country was the bad guy. Our country is a democracy. The actions our country takes are our responsibility. If these mad dogs are not our responsibility then whose responsibility are they? Perhaps it's the fault of the French? <HTTP: cost-of-war-heading-toward-one.html 04 2006 www.juancole.com></BLOCKQUOTE> I'd say that America is more a liberal plutocracy than a liberal democracy, but, still, it's not a dictatorship, so we had better assume our shares of responsibility. Our refusal to assume them only contribute to the "it's not our fault" meme, which goes hand in hand with the racist "it's the Iraqis' fault" meme, dominant in American culture. -- Yoshie <HTTP: montages.blogspot.com /> <HTTP: mrzine.org> <HTTP: monthlyreview.org /> He's wrong and you're wrong. It's not my fault. My hands are clean.</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $310,000 Mortgage for $999/mo - <a href="http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9133-16415&moid=4673">Calculate new house payment</a>