Foreign Correspondence

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<Davis, looking back from the vantage point of today, offers the following mini-commentary by way of introduction to his 2003 piece:

"Let's face it, a tolerance for atrocity is now enshrined at every level of American culture.> absolutely, we as an overall mass, the majority of the U.S. a strongly indifferent/cold/callous ugly americans.
If My Lai were today the Seymour Hersh breakthrough story it was way back then, there would now be heard a resounding yawn so loud we the outraged would not be heard. It could get on the bottom on the front page in the NYT, maybe.
But remember too how many americans called the pig Calley a hero!!!!!
Get down to it, we have as evil a history of anyone any anywhere going all the way back to slavery and our genocide on blacks and native americans.
Our history a myth, we have used WWII to allow us to whitewash that in bulk we are a nation built on mass murder and on the backs of slaves.
Also, in the South this country treated the irish pouring into the south via New Orleans during the time of the great Potato Famine, as nothing but bodies to be used and killed if bothersome.
The Irish were given high death rate work that they even didn't allow slaves to do once they had the irish available as slaves had monetary value, the irish none.
Our history is a lie told over and over and over.