Response from: Jawahar

We need to practice global compassion rather than conservative compassion to prevent these issues

Response from: David Tagliaferri

You say that america is often the only one providing useful leaders. Perhaps people should consider, those countries that stay out of other countries politics, are really the countries providing useful leadership, as they lead by example.

Response from: Joe Noory

Who are you fooling, Jawahar. I've spent half my life in Europe. The invective, bigotry, and generalization directed at Americans today is no different than it was 30 years ago. Your garden variety euro, living his peevish little envious, wholly rationalized existence imagines very much that we're all alike. It takes a bursting of the bubble most of the time to get them to realize that the sort of comments they casually toss around about Americans would cause them to shame someone if they said them about an African, an Arab, a South Asian, etc.

Even among the educuted, the comversation pre-supposes a small collection of obsessions that change from year to year, but begin with the random American having the sort of question posed to him that sounds more-or-less like "have you stopped beating your wife" - the assumption being in their decrepid little nationalist minds that it's perfectly alright to jump down the throat of a passing yank and make him explain European illusion about America, and confirm them for their amusement.

Don't forget that the worst ideas, the greatest violence, the mass genocides for the past 4 centuries all started as "popular movements" in Europe, led by Europeans, conducted by Europeans, and largely repaired by someone else.