[gcruse]

Country music and anti-Americanism don't mix.

Well both do have a tendency to glorify ignorance....hehehe.

I don't agree, but maybe not in the sense you would expect.
The country in country music is a metaphor for unsophisticated
rural America.  To the degree that unsophistication is ignorance,
you are right.  Anti-Americanism in the case of the Dixie Chicks
is a rejection of the belief that we can predict what others will
do to the extent of attacking them before they can do it.  The
ignorance here is in thinking life is that simple.  Straining to tie
the 9/11 attacks to Iraq  is in the service of telling ourselves
that Iraq has already attacked us, so that our predictions look more like
history than hubris.  We're going fishing.  If we catch a fish, ie
smoking guns ties to 9/11, than it was justified.  If not, we'll
think of something else.

It's gone too far to turn back now, so let's roll and get it done.

[E Rocc]

I don't agree, but maybe not in the sense you would expect. The country in country music is a metaphor for unsophisticated rural America. To the degree that unsophistication is ignorance, you are right.

I believe it's become more than that. There is a certain glorification of being ordinary or "simple". IMO it often crosses the line to an implied denigration of extraordinary achievement.

-Eric