These days I fear that too many Americans are either too damn comfortable in their own little middle-class niches or else too overwhelmed by the ecomomic and social problems that plague the other end of the spectrum to open up their awareness of what our government is doing to the rest of the world. We are insulated and isolated from all of that by the propaganda spun out by our own media. I don't know any statistics, but I'll bet that most Americans who have access to the web don't use it much to dig out political truths. They just don't want to know. I'm always surprised at how many Americans still don't undersand -- or don't want to understand -- why we're hated so much in so many places outside of the U.S.