While all countries have used propaganda and rewritten history to make themselves look good, it seems that as a supposed world power, the USA would own up to it's past and reach for higher standards. Washington murdered Natives after they saved him and his troops from freezing and starving to death in the middle of winter. Lincoln's goal was to give the North the advantage it needed by using slavery as a political move, not unlike any other President in history using something to gain clout. Columbus was a mean and nasty man who should never have been given any credit for finding this country, it was an accident and he had no clue where he was. The only true American are the natives who were here to begin with. If we want to talk Hitler, then why not include the countries that came over here and committed genocide on these people. Lying, stealing and forcing them onto slavery (yep, they were the ones used until they were put on reservation). The USA does not stand out as a great and noble country in the eyes of other countries because it has a terrible past that it does not own up to and it basically runs on political double talk. If we are going to preach it then we need to live it. Don't get me wrong, every country has a dark past and every leader in the world needs to grow up and take care of it's people. Take politicians out of the picture and we would all be better off. Did you know that Dolly Madison (wife of James Madison) expected others to call her "Your Highness"? I find that to be somewhat ambiguous in light of the new country trying to become a democracy. One doesn't have to hate their country just because of its past wrongs, but it would be nice to know they care enough to claim their mistakes and do right by them in the future. I really do not see that we have come as far as we like to think we have.