I've never seen Psychocat's posts as being anti-American or reflecting any kind of hate for America. It's perfectly fair to point out this country's hypocrisy if that is what he sees. I love my country and am defintely not anti-American, but I see a lot of hypocrisy too. And I also think it is completely possible to hate this lying-sack-of-shit Bush administration and its hypocritical, greedy, self-serving, short-sighted policies without hating the country and people as a whole.

P4B, it's sort of ridiculous to tell Psychocat, "I've NEVER seen a post by ya regarding the aid that is given by this country or the rapid response from the evil U.S.A. when there is a natural disaster anywhere in the world." You've defended yourself when people have said you never post anything that is not pro-Republican or anti-Democratic by saying that you will leave that to someone else. I won't speak for Psychocat, but it seems like he could probably leave the pro-American posts to you and others and they would be pretty well covered.

The US definitely has some hypocritical policies, but there are also good reasons for at least some of those policies. For example, the nuclear non-prolification policies of every country that has nukes of their own are hypocritical on the face of it. If you have your own nukes but tell other countries that they can't develop them, that is an obvious two-faced, self-serving policy. Often it comes down to a condescending point of view that the exisitng nuclear powers are responsible enough to handle nukes, while the aspiring nuclear powers are irresponsible rogue nations who would use them without hesitation. That's obviously not "fair," and if nations were individuals in a democratic society, we wouldn't tolerate that kind of double-standard. But the practical matter is that nations are not individuals in a democratic society. And there is no higher authority that we can appeal to if one nation decides to behave irresponsibly and misuse a nuke that it was allowed to develop out of a sense of "fairness." So I am completely in agreement with the idea that a country like Iran should not be allowed to have a nuke, even though it is obviously unfair and hypocritical for the US to say so when we have thousands of nukes of our own.

It's also obviously hypocritical for the US to say a country like Iran must submit to IAEA inspections and must completely disclose all of it's nuclear programs and must destroy banned programs or face sanctions of different kinds, while at the same time not insisting on the same thing for Israel. It's generally assumed Israel has a secret nuclear program and has a secret inventory of nuclear weapons. That is not something we would ever allow any of Israel's neighbors to develop. In fact, almost everyone is certain that if any of Israel's neighbors were to develope a nuke, then Israel would use it's own nuclear capability to take out the threat. So we don't want Iran to get a nuke bacause it MIGHT attack Israel, but we reassure ourselves with the certainty that Isreal DEFINITELY WOULD use it's nukes on Iran. So that is hypocrisy. There are good geopolitical reasons for it, but let's not pretend it's not hypocritical.