America Fuck Yeah

I'm just going to throw this out for discussion. I'm certainly not one who imagines that there was a golden age of the press, so this isn't that kind of nostalgia, but I do seem to remember that back during the Cold War and aftermath there was more upfront acknowledgment that we engaged in a lot of Realpolitik. Sure, we were still the good guys, but it wasn't farting in church to suggest that some things we did foreign policy-wise weren't all about the peeance and freeance, but just trying to rig the world in our favor. Post-9/11 especially it became America-hating to even suggest that we were less than pure in any of our motives. With the Egypt situation unfolding I'm sensing a very slight exhale in the media, opening the door to actually talking about this stuff again.