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Where would he get this<\/a> idea?\u00a0 Probably from any one of a thousand new casts, blogs, and pundit reports by progressives and others critical of America who are, you know, Americans.\u00a0 In other news, Tokyo Rose suggests America is the bad guy and the cause of hostilities in WWII.\u00a0 American tend to agree!\u00a0 Can you imagine?\u00a0 Of course there are those who say WWII\u00a0was our fault, we had no business being there, and who tend to focus on the sins of our country to the exclusion of any other atrocities (with the obvious exception\u00a0of the Holocaust).\u00a0 Funny how times change.\u00a0 Was a time when siding with the aggressor against our own country was looked down upon.\u00a0 But let\u2019s face it.\u00a0 For a growing swath of the American population, there is only one force of evil in the world, and it is, and always has been,\u00a0us.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"