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hap .. hypocrisy .. yes .. there are "two views of the USA --" from yours

One gives some reasons for dislike of America, as "coolobserver" did in your Daily Kos link ..

"I hate America for the near-extermination and subsequent oppression of its indigenous population. I hate it for its role in the African slave trade and for dropping atomic bombs on civilians. I hate its control of institutions like the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization. I hate it for propping up brutal dictators like Suharto, Pinochet, Duvalier, Hussein, Marcos, and the Shah of Iran. I hate America for its unconditional support for Israel. I hate its bogus two-party system, its one-size-fits-all culture, and its income gap. I could go on for pages but I'll sum up with this: I hate America for being a hypocritical white supremacist capitalist patriarchy." ..

while others have as reasonable and valid reasons for appreciating the USA as you include ..

"Want to know what America is all about?

It's been called the Land of Opportunity, the Land of Liberty, a melting pot and a great experiment.

For more than 280 million people today, the United States of America is quite simply "home" -- a place of beauty, comfort and memories as well as a source of pride, strength and stability in an ever-changing world.

"Americans liberated me from Nazi occupation," remembered Ilsabey Christa Siemens, who was born in Holland and now lives in Montreal, Quebec.

"America means courage and generosity." It is "freedom, family and friends," said Sergeant Major Richard Bristow, of Fort Bragg, NC.

"America is hope." It is "never-ending opportunities and infinite choices," wrote Michelle Johnson, of Lake Park, FL.

For Teresa J. Perdue -- who submitted a photograph of the old barn that stands on her family's "homeplace" in Boone County, WV -- America is a place where the Stars and Stripes combine to "say a thousand words" about tradition and continuity.

America, in the end, is everything that Americans make it and more. Complex, colorful, freethinking, optimistic and diverse, it is a land of dreams and dreamers, of high ideals and achievement -- a nation united in a belief that [united,] all things are possible."

That is the end of your 2007 post. There is also a third view of the USA, which with some objectivity appreciates and acknowledges all of the above, while also seeing the hypocrisy, say e.g. attitude inherent in ..

"They noted that Garzón was already in hot water over his investigation into human rights crimes committed under Spain's former dictator General Francisco Franco. As a result Garzón now looks set to be removed from his job by supreme court judges next year."

compared to many countries later attitudes toward Pinochet.

Interestingly, the post of yours linked here is, according to a search, the only mention by you here, of, Pinochet, in the period 2006 - 2010.