You can't be a reporter for my paper.
RTFS.
Tell me that: before 9/11, Muricans generally WEREN'T grossly ignorant of what most of the world thinks, why they think what they think.. and to a large extent: ignorant of much we *have done* (and even - our rationale for *doing it then*).
(And for you I'd have to add, 'not merely the ugly we have done': all we have done including the admirable.)
Sheesh.