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.