That said, there's nothing like a good fight. Even before sports, Americans were killing Sioux, lynching blacks, savaging union strikers, and having gunfights in the street. Once the western frontier was closed, and the good parts of Mexico were stolen("You took the half with the roads" said a Mexican ambassador to the US), we fought Cuba, and annexed the Phillipines.

I'm not alone. Americans, by nature, enjoy violence. This is a country that won't allow someone to make tender love to their wife on camera....but the next night, they show the California governor killing people by the boatload in one of his corny action movies. Arnold gets $20 million a film....I wonder what Alan Alda asks for when/if someone calls him? Is Hollywood trying to turn us into animals? Hell no. They just pay for what sells best...and what sells best is Rambo killing 300 Laotians.