Agree, the repression doesn't help either, and though the death to America goes back to the Mosaddegh episode too and
to the attacks in years since, none of it helps. And we do have extremist among us who call for death to some of us.
The independence bit and the fact they most certainly, i think, could have had a nuke before now
if they had really wanted to keeps me on their side on this one particular point.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”