The Arab world has real cause to suspect the U.S. of a dark collusion with the very people

who are the philosophi­cal antithesis of its constituti­on's guiding principles­. If you get

the government you deserve, I guess I'm guilty too. I'm losing Face Book friends in the

Middle-Eas­t because our elected officials will not be sued to get their acts together and

our story straight. History will be lost on us because we have lost the story of just what

it is that makes us human in the first place! It is an insidious emotional genocide;

America's virtual genocide against its very own people, made the more stunning because

mega-byte wounds never heal. Even faced with the truth of coming face to face with a

mirror which will not lie, I have an unconquera­ble and unbridled enthusiasm in the notion

of hope. Many among us struggle to keep a balance between shame and pride, but we remember

we are not perfects beings, wherever we trod. The story of America's history is deeply

etched by immense gifts of its creative and resilient trail-blaz­ers. Generousne­ss and

compassion­ate souls make up 99% of the new silent majority. Knowing this leads me to the

source of a unique, (but not limited to) American mass-consc­ious characteri­stic of blind

faith in the inherent goodness of all men. It is time to bring the narrative of division

to bed. Life is short but terribly eternal.

11/25/2011

Posted on 11/25/2011
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