@hawkeye10,
Quote: specifically the failure over the last 40 years to teach civics, and over the last 20 to teach anything close to an objective truthful version of history?
There's never been an objective truthful version of history taught in the USA, Hawk. Such a notion is pure nonsense. There has only been an incessant stream of pure propaganda. Look at the movies, pretty much since movies began, that have been glorifying the USA in complete defiance of reality.
It's so bloody obvious that only brain dead idiots like Oralloy, Finn, Gob, can still keep spouting the nonsense. They too know, but they, each in their own way, keep on keeping on with the myths.
WikiLeaks has just exposed the surface of a deep and virulent cancer. And you know what, it doesn't have to be this way. There are actually many countries in the world where people enjoy a decent standard of living without raping and pillaging the poorer countries of the world.
There are actually countries around the globe that give aid to other countries without forcing them buy from that country. That's what you call generosity, that's what you call real aid.
The US gives food aid, that has been heavily subsidized for US farmers, for the sole purpose of ruining the food production of these poor countries, which then allows US agribusiness to gain entry. More raping and pillaging, with just a better disguise.