Andrew Tobias Frank: “After listening to this audio clip, I feel so sad for our country’s morality and my children’s future. Our cou
May 29, 2005

Andrew Tobias

Frank: “After listening to this audio clip, I feel so sad for our country’s morality and my children’s future. Our country has become a curse for the world’s underclass.”

Ours is the greatest country that ever was. We are rightly proud of so many things. But anyone who has studied history knows we have never been perfect and often, far, far from it. It is not anti-American to try to see ourselves accurately and hold ourselves to a high standard. In fact, nothing could be more American.

In that spirit, you may find the above-linked audio worth your time. You knew about slavery and about our treatment of the American Indian; you have your opinions about how grateful to us the Vietnamese should or should not be.But in this interview, John Perkins gives us even more to ponder.  Could some of this be true?
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