There is no "corner on the market" when it comes to good honest decent people. The world is full of them. So when you hear that one country is claiming to have the moral high ground over another country it is just rhetoric. There are some countries that have political/military systems that debase and subject their people but the people themselves are not devoid of the qualities that we admire, they are just unable to reflect them due to greater realities in their lives that offer little but fear. I am thinking of the Syrian people and their internal struggle to free themselves from the heavy-handed yoke of their oppressive tyrannical leader. They want to have lives that reflect the good, honest decency within them but until they can throw off the real danger and fear they live under, no such human attribute can be witnessed on a kind of apparent scale. I so wish we could do more to help them, not only America but the world. However old paradigms of politics prevent the world as a whole from doing the right thing and instilling in our thoughts and actions the same that which we would demand for ourselves. The day will come when the good honest decent people of this world will have the reigns of power in such a way that being a good honest decent person will be the reflected rule. In the meantime we must continue to struggle against those forces that demand we abrogate what is best about our species so that they can have control over the effects of what is less than honorable about our species.
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