Dear world, please stop us!

American intellectual Naomi Wolf writes in Dagens Nyheter newspaper about the many images and reports of torture and war crimes commited by Americans, which most of her countrymen disavow. Openly doubting her feelings of patriotism, she cries out to the world: please, stop us! "Americans worry about their weight and then go shopping," she writes. "We have become a lawless nation, a threat to international law and stability in the civilised countries that were once our allies. For good reason we figure on Canada's list of brutal countries that use torture. ... We Americans are not able to help ourselves. Like drug addicts or mental patients who refuse treatment, we depend on our friends to act. Remember that we have seen better times. Take steps to save us and the world from ourselves. Perhaps then I will be able to love my country once more."

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