Scapegoats

How easy it is to jump ship, to go over on the side of the 'rest of the world', to wash our hands of America's problems. How much harder it is to look at the situation in all it's complexity, to realize that a stereotype about America is still a stereotype, to combat ignorance in all its forms - both at home and abroad, about our home, even when American-bashing is a popular pastime that seems to bring the fairly-well-educated from around the world together like nothing else.