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"Instead, the main cause of the attacks was America's own interventionist, imperialistic, inter-meddling foreign policy -the decades of slaughters, injuries, impositions, and other offenses that America's bipartisan foreign policy has inflicted upon our foreign neighbors."

Another hand-wringing, pants-wetting liberal intent on blaming the victims for the attroctities committed against us.

Traitors like this aren't worth the piss it would take to wet them.

hard on the fact that, empirically, taking the twentieth century as a whole, the single most warlike, most interventionist, most imperialistic government in the world has been the United States.

He's dead wrong on this one. At any given time, we were/are the least imperial, most isolated nation. He is confusing most victorious against imperialism as being imperialistic. French and British colonies in Asia, Africa and the Middle East were abandoned in the 20th century and thugs rushed to fill the void. We inevitably end up fighting the imperialists attempting to fill these vacuums such as Russia, Japan, Germany, Vietnam, Somalia, Palestine, etc.

We are the single lone victor that stopped imperialism and our enemies have mostly been vanquished. we will and should continue to fight the enemies of freedom. People like Osama bin Laden (and Hitler and Hirohito and Mao tse Tung and Stalin) don't stop their imperialism without the use of force. There is no compromise or surrender. Osama and his imperialist thugs must be stopped. Already they have cells in many countries.

Israel has it right. Either fight them or be pushed into the sea. I choose to fight them.

Is this the same Dr. Winston McCuen that wrote this?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- AMERICA'S WORST PRESIDENT
On President's Day, your paper reported the results of a survey of historians concerning which U.S. presidents possessed the highest leadership qualities. These gentlemen awarded Abraham Lincoln the number one spot.
I would respectfully differ with these gentlemen however, and point out, while doing so, that human historical judgments reflect the intelligence and moral character of the judges as much as they report the deeds and words of those who are judged.
If we want to learn the truth about Lincoln, and not merely accept the idealized nonsense that we are force-fed in the public schools, for example, we might turn to a genuinely scholarly work like Edgar Lee Masters' Lincoln The Man.
Masters reveals how Lincoln was essentially an unprincipled opportunist who, for example, as President, allowed powerful Northern industialists to determine policy decisions, stumbled onto the slavery issue and used it to consolidate his power, and cynically used religious rhetoric, although not religious himself, to advance his agenda. Also, Lincoln's contempt and disregard for the constraints endemic to constitutional government were resoundingly demonstrated during his Administration. The list of Lincoln's weighty and criminal offenses against the Constitution and the American people is very long, and includes the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, the unlawful creation of a state (West Virginia) out of an existing state (Virginia), the illegally and immorally conducted emancipation of slaves, the violent suppression of duly authorized state governments North and South, and the waging of total war against the civilian population of the South.
Abraham Lincoln was not America's greatest president, but he has been America's greatest tyrant -- thus far.
Winston L. McCuen, Ph.D.
Greenville, SC

So, does this guy have a problem with the emancipation of slaves?

He sure doesn't seem to be concerned about the immorality of owning slaves nor the UNCONSTITUTIONALITY of owning human beings.