[Hostage]

My Id speaks:
"Yes, America is so bad and we are incorrigible. We will never learn we are so bad. How can we be allowed to exist? We are so so bad, we are monsters, we are evil. We are Satanic. We must be destroyed. But we are so bad.

Well let's be what we are, bad. Nuke these f*ckers! and their little dogs too!"

My adult speaks: "Ed, we are already dead. You told me that before the gate opened, just before your craft hit the beach at Normandy that you and your brothers were all thinking you all were already dead. You didn't want to be there. You wanted to be with your wife and children at home, safe, loved and warm. But the evil in the world put you on that craft to face death.

Ed, they think we are evil. Am I evil? What did I do to make them hate me. I want to stay home with my wife and children. But I know the evil in this world won't let me stay home. I'm already dead."

Ed survived and the nation was victorious over Nazi Germany.

[aculeus]

Everything I say about Greene is correct .... except he didn't write The Ugly American.

Sorry for the error.

[aculeus]

Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American. The author of The Ugly American is William Lederer

... and Eugene Burdick.