America's and American's so-wrong view of history

I think it's exemplified by this video.

"We didn't start the fire."

Nonsense.

Pardon the crude language but to be more emphatic, because it deserves it, bullshit.

I think it can easily, historically and factually be argued from at least Vietnam on that we--the US--did, in fact, start the fire.

We chose to go into Vietnam. We chose to add soldiers to the country. We chose to escalate the war. We chose to stretch it out, too, and bomb Cambodia.

To say otherwise gives us far too much credit and excuses our incredibly stupid, murderous, killing ways, then and now, what with Iraq and Afghanistan.

Our President at the time, one George W. Bush and his administration chose to go into Iraq, disgustingly, shamefully, ignorantly and irresponsibly enough. And totally against national and international law.

Far before Vietnam, too, there's the messy, inconvenient little truth and fact that the US chose to have Chile's own Salvador Allende assassinated. Sure, he was a Marxist but he was democratically elected by the people of that country.

"We didn't start the fire"?

Again, bullshit.

Let's not kid or lie to ourselves.

We've been starting a lot of fires, as a country.

And for a long time, sadly.

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende; http://www.zompist.com/latam.html; http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/poli/soa/chile.htm