This is what I call a metaview. What you see when you step back to look at the bigger picture. (see Part 2)

I can't help but feel really sorry for those Americans who weren't at fault...but unfortunately are being dragged down by the choices of their political leaders, despite of it all... but then again... for all the unjustified pain that nation has put others through in the name of a so called Christian sense of Democracy, while they filled their pockets and bellies with investment profits and others had to watch their own kin die of starvation.... Yes Pride comes before a Fall.... and the higher up you are the more painful will be the fall...
Just letting my mind meander...

You are very much to the point.