Barry Carlton schrieb:

I don't hate America.. I certainly don't agree with some of the things that
your country has done, nor many things that my own country has done, but
that didn't mean that I hate them.

Also am I not a leftist. I do wonder why the assumption that pacifism must
somehow be coupled to leftism is made so frequently.

Full ACK. I live in germany and I know what "history has done badly" to
my parents and and parents in law's families.
Some years back when I travelled USA southwest I met lots of people and
almost all of them were lack of knowing even the basic history of their
own country.... Not to speak from anything actually was happening in the
world. They had simply not an idea of it. They were all VERY friendly
people -running with blinders-. So some shortwave listeners in the US
are a great exception on this.

Volker