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in response to reader comment: This book is an attempt to frame a sentiimental persepctive that the history does not actually support

Submitted by Billy Smith, Feb 12, 2008 11:29

I think D makes some very good points (see "This book is an attempt to frame..." above). To get close to the truth one probably has to read many different interpretations of the same time.

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The Puritan rhetoric (our City on rhe Hill syndrome) which has kept median Americans from realizing how imperialistic we've covertly... [MORE]	Patrick D.Hazard	Feb 8, 2008 12:03
↔ self-delusion on both an individual and collective basis is crucial for the human psyche. Russians remain proud of the might... [MORE]	Frankly Speaking	Feb 9, 2008 22:19
↔ ↔ The imperial appetite of certain countries has never ended, indeed if anything it has grown. What has changed are the... [MORE]	Siddhartha S.Bhadrakumar	Feb 10, 2008 23:40
↔ ↔ ↔	Glenn Smith	Feb 12, 2008 18:15
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ I've just now had a chance to read "Frankly Speaking".It is a very thoughtful response for which I am grateful.... [MORE]	Patrick D.Hazard	Feb 13, 2008 10:26
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ Don't be so quick to assume America is about to elect either a woman or an African American man as... [MORE]	BklynGal305	Feb 14, 2008 17:38
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ Dear Mr.Smith: I came not to bury American Exceptionalism but to raise it:-- from Ideals to Realities. I used to... [MORE]	Patrick D.Hazard	Feb 21, 2008 03:00
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔	ricardo maxwell	Feb 21, 2008 08:51
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ Upon reading Patrick Hazrads article I kept looking for substance, concrete unambiguous facts that would stand alone without the distraction... [MORE]	Michael Rodriguez	Mar 4, 2008 14:05
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ So, the burden of the intelligentsia is to show the poor masses the errors of their ways and to enlighten... [MORE]	Paul McCord	Mar 10, 2008 10:30
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔	gxb	Mar 10, 2008 10:38
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ Mr. Hazard I know that you have the best intentions in your heart and it behoves me to respond. American... [MORE]	Gene Guffey	Mar 15, 2008 10:58
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↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ Perhaps, in the case of the Spanish, who in 1491 had just finished 700 years of expelling the Muslims who... [MORE]	D	Feb 8, 2008 15:03
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ I'd just like to point out that "arrogance" is hardly a Western monopoly. It is fundamental to the Chinese worldview;... [MORE]	D	Feb 8, 2008 09:24
↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔	Billy Smith	Feb 12, 2008 11:29
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