A Response to AJ's Blog:

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        AJ, you're very right when you say that throughout our education, we have been taught that the United States' ideals are liberty and equality, and we do things at whatever cost it may be to stick up for those. We were taught that the US is selfless; that we enter wars to defend those ideals and those ideals alone. And I guess it makes sense why they teach us this way, because they want to promote a sense of civic nationalism - and what better way than making us turn a blind-eye to the parts of history which we don't have a huge sense of pride in (I'm sure there are better ways)! They most likely put the "fuzzy gaps" that you're talking about in place and hope that people don't question it - which, in the same education system, we aren't really taught to question the information given to us. How were we supposed to question information when we had no resources to inform us that maybe there was something missing or wrong?
          Now that we have escaped the grasps of somewhat brainwashing, somewhat ignorant K-12 education, we can now fully understand the concept of the United States twisting situations to make wars seem like they are of humanitarian concern and not economic. Now that we aren't necessarily being spoon-fed information and our professors are actually trying to make us think in depth about these topics, we can see that the United States isn't the humanitarian hero they're all cracked up to - perhaps even the opposite, as we see with our current president.
          So I got on a mini rant, but thanks for posting AJ. I think I needed to get that all off my chest anyways!

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