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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
No, we do not. I sleep peacefully in bed because of my faith in God. The line you quote is nothing but a cheap way of papering over the horrors of war, of making yourself feel better about the atrocities that were committed throughout the history of the US: the slaughter of the indigenous population, the enslavement of millions of people of African descent, the conquest of half of Mexico, the usurpation of the remnants of the Spanish empire, and various wars fought to ensure US economic and political hegemony in Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere.
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This is a vast oversimplification. I hope that when the Roman Empire is mentioned, you go on and on about the crimes of the Romans and forget entirely about the benefits Rome brought to the world. But I doubt it; I think that you are specializing in building a brief against one country.