Written by Author Craig Murray:
Watching a medical program on TV about some poor miserable bugger in Indonesia who is tortured by his skin which has completely bubbled up. He looks as if a million marbles are hidden beneath his skin.
In steps America the Noble, America the great.
Brilliant doctors and nurses, great medical facilities
This is what made America great, the greatest, the noblest nation ever to grace this poor benighted planet.
Whether you look back at the Marshall Plan with American fighter and bomber pilots flying massive amounts of food to those trapped and imprisoned by the Soviets. In the countless men and women on the front line or at home who put down their weapons and turned to rebuilding a shattered Europe and Asia.
It is the compassion, the understanding, the willingness to do what is right, the "We Can Do It Together" attitude.
It was watching hundreds of millions of people pulling together not for their own benefit but for the benefit of their nation and the world at large.
This is America's true greatness.
Rome's greatest power was not her military, it was not her conquering heroes. it was their ability to build. A Roman Legion moved into an area and got to work.
Within a day was a defensive line, soon followed a wall, a gate, and then the all important trading post. These posts became centres for trade, they became villages, cities, culture.
America's great power was not her ability to kill or control or be religious bigots and zealots. The great power always lay in her compassion, her ability to build, her drive to be free.
These things I see you surrendering, throwing away. Zealots and bigots, insane greed, corruption and nationalised plundering. These are the antithesis of all you were, all you truly are, all you should be.
I do not know what will happen to the poor diseased man and I do not know what will happen to the disease that plagues this great nation. All I can do is hope that the same dedication, the same nobility, the same genius will save both.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
We Can Do It Together
Written by Author Craig Murray:
Watching a medical program on TV about some poor miserable bugger in Indonesia who is tortured by his skin which has completely bubbled up. He looks as if a million marbles are hidden beneath his skin.
In steps America the Noble, America the great.
Brilliant doctors and nurses, great medical facilities
This is what made America great, the greatest, the noblest nation ever to grace this poor benighted planet.
Whether you look back at the Marshall Plan with American fighter and bomber pilots flying massive amounts of food to those trapped and imprisoned by the Soviets. In the countless men and women on the front line or at home who put down their weapons and turned to rebuilding a shattered Europe and Asia.
It is the compassion, the understanding, the willingness to do what is right, the "We Can Do It Together" attitude.
It was watching hundreds of millions of people pulling together not for their own benefit but for the benefit of their nation and the world at large.
This is America's true greatness.
Rome's greatest power was not her military, it was not her conquering heroes. it was their ability to build. A Roman Legion moved into an area and got to work.
Within a day was a defensive line, soon followed a wall, a gate, and then the all important trading post. These posts became centres for trade, they became villages, cities, culture.
America's great power was not her ability to kill or control or be religious bigots and zealots. The great power always lay in her compassion, her ability to build, her drive to be free.
These things I see you surrendering, throwing away. Zealots and bigots, insane greed, corruption and nationalised plundering. These are the antithesis of all you were, all you truly are, all you should be.
I do not know what will happen to the poor diseased man and I do not know what will happen to the disease that plagues this great nation. All I can do is hope that the same dedication, the same nobility, the same genius will save both.
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The author failed to mention that the Berlin airlift was run to benefit and feed a people with whom we had just previously been at war to the consternation of a people whom we had called ally during the same conflagration. The acuity of how rapidly an ally can become an antagonist was seemingly lost on us as a nation throughout the duration of the cold war we waged against the Russians and their companions.
ReplyDeleteI’ve often heard it said that Americans are loved around the world. The people themselves in general love Americans but they resent the policies and practices of the government that comes with the people. How true that the driving forces behind our benevolence come with ulterior motives and policies, and requirements, and dicta of how payment is to be made for the acceptance of our good will.
We seem to have lost the concept that you catch more flies with honey than you can vinegar. Feed people because they are hungry. Help them if they are downtrodden and under attack. Then allow them what we allowed for ourselves; to decide our own destiny and direction. The example of what free is and means is much easier to sell than by demanding it as the antithesis to starving. We have become the police force of the world and the world would like to police and decide for themselves.
And in the same paradigm, we need to likewise provide for our own people. Charity starts at home.