This American naivety that persists of "Why do they hate us so much" is in the words of Chris Hedges (though not in his original context) "blissful ignorance".
We can not continue to swagger with hubris while exercising hegemony all over the world, indulge in unnecessary wars and occupations, kill innocents in drone strikes and missile attacks and not expect retaliation by those who seek revenge against us.
Yet the Obama administration has expanded the Bush drone policies and prefers to assassinate suspects rather than capture and place them in indefinite detention without due process.
So instead of most Americans challenging and protesting against these abhorrent policies and practices that are blatantly unconstitutional and a usurpation of power by the executive we blithely accept them making us unwitting accomplices to our government authorizing and committing them in our name.
Too many Americans have become "good German's," i.e. we know what our government is doing is wrong but we pretend it isn't happening, remain in denial or "blissful ignorance" while indulging only in private personal matters. That is all too many of us care about.
Instead of being spectators of gladiators fighting in Roman arenas we have the spectacle of professional football, the modern equivalent to the long gone Roman Empires games.
And we know what happened to Rome.
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