The Grey World

Some folks limit themselves by only understanding issues in black and white and not being able to negotiate moral ambiguity. There are often world events that are nuanced. If you can't navigate when confronted by the "grey area", you will find it hard to cope with life. Plenty has been done wrong by America in the course of history. This fact does not make the United States an evil nation, but only reflect a work in progress with that advancement being carried out by humans who are inherently flawed and inevitably make mistakes. If George Washington was a leader born in the Twentieth Century and in power now, he would abhor slavery, just as US Presidents have since the election of 1860 (Abe Lincoln emerging victorious and ultimately ending the wicked institution), but the first American President was a man of his times (the seventeen hundreds) with no thought that what most of the world was participating in during his lifetime was bad.