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It's an odd country that likes to say such things, yet knows, and believes in, the opposite. One of America's saving graces has been its ability to live comfortably with certain forms of hypocrisy; essentially we are no different today from our forebears who gave their lusty solo king-of-the-hill yells while helping the people across town to fight a fire and demanding that the central government provide roads, protection, cheap land and transportation. Not that the country ever claimed not to be odd. Inscrutable West. Why does America prefer to wear a fiction when the facts show the nation in a better light? Who was that masked man?