"Are Americans Ready for Democracy?" - USA/MidEast Juxtaposed

Great article writing about Americans as the US media writes about the Middle East - very quotable.

"With their feeble sense of nationhood, Americans fall back on an individualism so extreme that their laws hold that even business corporations are people... Unfortunately, fully half the homes of these tribesmen are stocked with firearms. And Americans have been known to bring their weapons to ostensibly peaceful political rallies. In fact, political assassination has been a recurring problem in the United States for more than a century. Even in 2011, Federal officials who ventured into the untamed Western deserts have been threatened and even shot."