The Guilty American
That's a pretty accurate analysis. She particulary focuses on their knee-jerk "blame America first" meme. They'll cut everyone slack, even ruthless dictators (Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro) and terrorists (Osama bin Laden, al-Zarqawi); but when it comes to their own country - oh no! It's guilty, guilty, guilty, no matter what the charge. The good doctor reminds them that "American values at every level clearly do not support what might have gone down in Haditha. Justice will be done--for both the victims and the accused. And we as Americans [should] consider them innocent until proven guilty." She concludes by noting:
Now, one of my jobs as a psychiatrist is to dig out and bore into the site of the impaction in order to try to clear up the mental plumbing. Only by doing this dirty, and often thankless job, can the rush of reality and truth through the system be restored. But this sort of ideological blockage frequently causes the ego of the sufferer to bloat with self-righteous virtue; while creating the stink of paranoia to issue forth from the mouth; and the massive obstruction frequently re-forms quickly in a sort of self-perpetuating chronic affliction.And yet they wonder why they lose elections...
It is the old GIGO phenomenon. The left needs to work on changing its unhealthy diet of old, smelly garbage ideas; and begin to metabolize the high fiber of reality if they want to prevent recurrence.
On the same topic, Christopher Hitchens explains why Haditha cannot be compared to My Lai.
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