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Northpole is, indeed, frozen and covered up with ice; for the Promised Land was only a swathe of geography in a larger parcel of land known as of old as Palestine.  
To think that the US citizenry gets outside news is laughable. Unless people read foreign newspapers on the Internet or get them delivered to their homes or read alternative news sites, they only get gov't propaganda not too terribly different from any dictator's feedings. 
If one even cursorily reads the Bible and the Quran, one sees the same patriarchs, the same historical figures, the same Prophet who declared all before him null and void. All prophets do. Everywhere. 
The letter that began these comments did not blame the US for all that is wrong in their country/countries, as one commenter seems bent on maintaining--and then holding, via implication, that there is nothing wrong with the US. The US is, indeed, responsible for the condition and thence the hatred (which is fairly recent) that is now the Middle East. Raising up the double standard in US foreign affairs is right on target; it is also part and parcel of how the US deals with its own citizens. ALL gov'ts in the world, in their dealings with others, do not look at people, they only see things, things to be used and discarded when not useful any more. It's part of the system. It's part of a very long history. It's a major drawback to the present inhumane system of gov't anywhere, of life anywhere (Personnel is no longer about people, it is about Human RESOURCES, i.e. things). Our world is not very humane. Our religions are fascistic: Mine is The Way; I am right and you are wrong so I get to kill you because you're not a person you're a minion of the Devil.  
Any gov't that pushes aside or disenfranchises any of its people is a psychologically unbalanced state; that is, it is ill, insane. I agree heartily with Katherine Anne Porter: there is no such thing as a good gov't. However, people are not yet responsible enough or thoughtful enough to govern themselves. Partly because of the system, of their education. I refer you to the writings of Humberto Marriotti.

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