Why are we vilified: US freedom, or US policies

[Kitsune]

...a new subspecies of liberal guilt arose—over the pleasure liberals took in bad news from Iraq...

Hell, I never took pleasure in seeing bad news come out of Iraq and I was very much against the invasion. Each time another car bomb went off, everytime the death toll of US troops went up I clenched my teeth and grumbled that things in this world are seriously fucked up. Anyone who took pleasure in that kind of news needs some counseling.

At a certain point during the Vietnam War, a majority of Americans—those of us who were in favor of unilateral U.S. withdrawal—were in a de facto alliance with the North Vietnamese, the Vietcong, and the Soviets.

I'm sorry, but I don't agree at all with this part of the article and I think the author needs to be kicked in the head for this type of binary grouping. The violent "you're either for us or against us" mentality is going to do us all damage, someday.

At this time I'm really happy for the Iraqi people, but I still don't agree that the ends justify the means in this mess. Unlike the majority of the public, I'd still like to see someone held responsible for the intelligence screw-up that lead to us thinning our military over non-existant WMD and permitting more than one thousand of our soliders to die over what is now deemed to be a bad rumor. But, ah, no one seemed to care then and no one seems to care now...