This is a valuable commentary. These same thoughts should at least darken the doorway of the American conscience at a time we are asking 'why?' It is appropriate to do some 'US bashing', to avoid the hard questions is simply deflecting blame, and it shouldn't be all left to future historians to do the bashing. Perhaps we have met the killer, and the killer is us. ( insert terrorist if you wish) The author asks "What kind of society has America become?" I say this, it is as it always has been. It was concieved on the back of mass genocide of the native population of this land, it grew on the back of slavery, black, yellow, brown and white. It thrives by suppression of human rights around the world. Accepting the gritty, unflattering truth about our collective history is the beginning to a new course for this country.