@JTT,
JTT wrote:
Foofie: My position is "American Exceptionalism." That position is inviolate. I embrace and thrill to what it has done to innocents the world over. I especially love how Reagan got his buddies, the Contras, to cut off women's breast and skin people alive. Did you know that the Contras are just like our founding fathers?
Ooooooooo, I get all giddy inside when I think about how America is so exceptional - we showed Hitler that he was a second rate war criminal. You want to do it big time - join in with us Americans - we're showing the world just how exceptionally cruel and morally vacant a group of people can get.
You are fabricating what I never said. You apparently do not want to use logic to promulgate your position, but rather fictionalize another poster's thoughts. The only part of the above I said was, "My position is "American Exceptionalism." That position is inviolate." The rest of the above is your fictional libelous character assassination.
What is interesting is that you might be less inclined to use my posts in a more direct way. Perhaps, you have some issues with Foofie, based on some quality of mine. Do you dislike New Yorkers? New York Jews? Does that exacerbate my being an American? I do not know; I am only looking for a reason that you use really nasty tactics to make me look bad. Perhaps, that is your ulterior unconscious goal, rather than decry the United States?
You might have more issues in your psyche than just the United States, since no one on the forum, to my knowledge, had any salient involvement with the actions of the US that you decry. Do you know what the term "scapegoat" means?
Plus, while you attack, in your fictionalized quotes, another poster, you do not seem to have any remorse for another's feelings. Perhaps, you have the same lack of commiseration you apply to others in the political realm, but on a more personal level? Which is worse ethically ? To be a unfeeling politically, or unfeeling in one's interpersonal relationships. You answer the question.