Is it any wonder...

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<p>…that so many in the Middle East consider Americans to be hostile occupiers and terrorists in Iraq, when things like this are happening?</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/world/middleeast/22cnd-blackwater.html?ex=1348113600&en=8cc727c6bd706f8a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/world/middleeast/22cnd-blackwater.html?ex=1348113600&en=8cc727c6bd706f8a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Of course. It is the beginning of a clear awareness and intelligence to realize that there is usually a seemingly justifiable reason for reactions.</p>

<p>If we can stop being so chauvinistic and pretentious there might then be a chance for peace. The pseudo patriotism that pervades our country blinds us to our faults and keeps us from realizing the hypocrisy that most of the world … hates. We’re simply not as wonderful as most of us think.</p>