Slate: Don’t Accept Putin’s Version of History. The West didn’t provoke Russia...

[nationalize the fed]

73. + trillions

You don't get an answer because you're right of course. (It's more than 20 years though)

Many Americans have bought the "Exceptional" line and think they really are. That their country can do what you have listed above at any time to any other people and it's somehow their right. Any objectors are terrorists and or delusional, dumb serfs who should be working/paying taxes rather than thinking anyway.

They ignore the recent history of their governments agencies and what they have done such as the CIA:

Regime change has been attempted through direct involvement of U.S. operatives, the funding and training of insurgency groups within these countries, anti-regime propaganda campaigns, coups d'état, and other activities usually conducted as operations by the CIA.

1 During the Cold War

1.1 Communist states 1944–89
1.2 Syria 1949
1.3 Iran 1953
1.4 Guatemala 1954
1.5 Tibet 1955–70s
1.6 Indonesia 1958
1.7 Cuba 1959
1.8 Iraq 1960–63
1.9 Dominican Republic 1961
1.10 South Vietnam 1963
1.11 Brazil 1964
1.12 Chile 1970–73
1.13 Afghanistan 1979–89
1.14 Turkey 1980
1.15 Poland 1980–89
1.16 Nicaragua 1981–90
1.16.1 Destablization through CIA assets
1.16.2 Arming the Contras

2 Since the end of the Cold War

2.1 Iraq 1992–96
2.2 Venezuela 2002
2.3 Iraq 2002–03
2.4 Iran 2005–present
2.5 Syria 2012–present
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions

The Establishment Mouthpiece Ted Koppel rambled on for 444 nights about "The Hostages" never even once mentioning the 1953 Iranian Coup- the reason for the hostage taking to begin with. It was classified, and anyone that did connect the dots was a Conspiracy Theorist.

Regime changes, drone bombing children, "sanctioning" here and there, character assassinations - it's all fine.

People in other countries are paying attention though- like Vinnie in New Zealand:

"You've gone from being the most intelligent, literate, morally back-boned citizenry in the history of the world to the laziest, dumbest, most capitulating human trash that has ever existed"