Who are we?

I'm watching Chairpersons Kean and Gorelick of the 9/11 Commission testify as to what we should do to prevent more terrorist attacks, in particular what to do about our relationship with Islamic countries.

Here's the decision: (1) better propaganda throughout the Muslim world about how wonderful we are, because they aren't being told all the good things we have done for Muslims, and (2) create new schools in Arab cultures which "glorify death" and re-educate Arab children with western ideas.

There. The problem is that Arabs just don't know who we really are.

I am always amazed at the blind ignorance of our "representatives". The Arab world - indeed, the entire rest of the world - knows full well who we are. They can tell by our actions through foreign policy, both overt and covert. Our rhetoric and our ideas are meaningless to everyone but ourselves.

We are the people who don't know who we are.