re: #116 rwdflynavy

As I said, we made mistakes in South and Central America during the Cold War. I think we were and are a better country than the USSR ever was.

American or American-financed boot-leather kicking in your teeth doesn’t taste like a “mistake”. It tastes like boot-leather.

All I’m saying is that acknowledging and owning up to our sometimes ginormous “mistakes” should not be the taboo that it apparently is with some people, nor raise their hackles to the extent it does.