Heres another Red Flag for you, from our favorite spinster Donald Rumsfeld:

“If anyone here lived in the Middle East and watched a network like Al-Jazeera day after day after day, even if you were an American you would begin to believe that America was bad,”

from Salon (don’t bother clicking on Salon’s link, you’ll only get the quote and then they’ll ask you to become a member)

Of course he’s right, and for the same reason people inside America think we are so great: Bias. If al Jazeera runs stories about all the negative things America does, and Fox runs stories about how great we are, you’ll end up with ignorant people watching both networks.

I think we’re just a normal country, not a great evil or good, with one exception: We are certainly one of the most powerful countries, so our deeds, good or bad have the potential to impact much more of the world.

Unfortunately, for any country i think the trend is that foreign policy will generally be good for that country (or a subgroup thereof) and neutral or negative for other countries, and thats clearly the case with our foreign policy.

We do need to take the next step in our evolution as a country so badly.

I’m going to start posting tidbids i see in the news that, in my opinion, encourage further investigation into the situations they refer too.

From Haaretz discussing the settlements in Palestine land.

The suburban-style settler houses with red roofs, white walls and neat gardens contrast with the close-packed cinderblock buildings that are home to most of the 1.3 million Palestinians on the other side of the Strip’s barbed wire.

Here is the entire article.