If you're with us you're fucked

I remember after the towers collapsed, Monkey In Charge Bush posed this question. Why does the world hate us so? He had an answer, but it was lame. If you remember it went along the lines of jealousy and hating our freedoms. Could we get any more highschool?

I have a better answer. It comes from this Newsweek story. Once upon a time, an Afghan man sheltered an injured Navy SEAL after the soldier's team had been attacked by the Taliban. In spite of the risks, he provided the SEAL with food, water and shelter. He even helped contact US authorities to evacuate him. Doing this cost him his business, his home and his possessions as neighbors and Taliban gunmen ran him out of town.

How did we repay him? With a new home, protection and gratitude? AS IF!!! We imprisoned and interrogated him for his ties to al Qaeda, of course.

Now tell me again, Monkey. Why do they hate us?

~Lila Schow
Because Responsible Citizens Clean Up After Their Governmenthttp://goodusgov.org/