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February 4th, 2009 at 11:07 am
What is the source of the United States’ power? Is their any nation on earth as revolutionary as America?
Begin with the United States of America., the greatest force for freedom and change in history. We, the American people, are humankind's pioneers. Our ancestors cultivated a natural wilderness. Americans of the twenty-first century confront a wilderness of flesh and blood in a world terrified by the virtues that we treasure, from religious tolerance to the rule of law, from the dignity of every man and woman to the rejection of hereditary power. Erupting with freedom, America challenges the world. We expose lies that justified thousands of years of tyrannies, proving that birth need not determine destiny. We demonstrate freedoms potential for all. And those we robbed of authority will never forgive us.
Each day we expand the frontiers of human possibility. Those who insist on limits are our enemies. It is their choice, not ours. The great struggle of the twenty-first century will rage between those, led by America, who believe that men and women have the right to shape their own lives, and those who believe themselves entitled to shape the lives of others. We will prevail, but the rearguard actions fought on behalf of decayed traditions and murderous beliefs will rage beyond our lifetimes.
Without the sacrifices of our forebears, most human beings - perhaps all - would live under tyranny. Without teh Americans of today and our English speaking brethren, dictators would again rise without hindrance. Because of us, freedom an dthe dignity of the common man and woman have become the ideal of a reordered humanity. We have lifted the weight of history from the shoulders of many millions.
And we are far from finished.
Our country is a force for good without precedent. We embody the revolutionary proposition that men and women can govern themselves from below, to the benefit of all, instead of being governed from above, to the benefit of few. Our pride does not rely upon purity of blood or religious monoploy, but uopn what multiple races and creeds have built with sweat and sacrifice. Our ancestors were not children of privilege,but men and women who refused to accept the limits of the lands they left behind. The new Americans who arrive to increase our strength are the spiritual kindred of teh earliest colonists. Old and new, Americans rejected the saftey of submission for a chance to stride upright. And we have learned to live together without hatred, if not without passing rancor. It is an achievement few other lands can claim - and none could claim it but for our example.
Our progress has not been easy. Some of our ancestors fled chains. Othewrs arrived in chains. Some wore chains as they lived upon our soil. Our past has been imperfect. But unlike others, we do not deny our mistakes. We do not embrace history as an excuse for continued failure.
That alone sets us apart from the rest of the world.
When Americans stumble, we get back up. We do not wallow in a self-made mire and call it the will of God or the hand of fate. To err may be human, but to roll up your sleeves and fix what went wrong is American. We bear with us all the faults humanity can manifest. But we do not surrender to those faults. While others cling to past glories, we know that our greatest days still lay ahead.
For all the complaints we must bear about America -the price of our success and the product of human jealousy - only imagine what this world would be like without us. Some may answer that proposition smugly, mocking us from foreign realms of failure. But their children line up by the millions to apply for U.S. Visas. And those who complain about their American birthright rarely leave to live their lives abroad.
All men and women dream. Americans forge their dreams into reality
We are not hated for what we have done to others, but for what we have done for ourselves. The example of our success is humiliating and bitter to all those who cling to traditions our power reveals as inadequate. Even the American capacity for hard work excites the hostility not only of our enemies , but of fair weather allies. Perhaps the cruelest thing European governments have done to their citizens over the past half century has been to destroy the sense that work fullfills a life. An unemployment payment is no substitute for a job, and welfare for the able robs human beings of their dignity, creating moral slaves. Most Americans ,on the other hand, cannot imagine a life without work. We win the lottery, then get back behind the wheel of the delivery truck. Our passion for work and achievement is a tremendous source of our strength.
As an American citizen, I see quiet heroism in the parent who labors at a grinding job, year after year, in order to raise a family, in the common citizen who will never enjoy celebrity or financial wealth, but whose steadiness and moral intergrity make this country go. America has no greater reserve of strength than the honest man or woman who, instead of scheming to beat the system, keeps that sytem running day after day.
Of course few of those Americans see themselves as revolutionaries. Yet we live in the most revolutionary society in history. We upset oppressivetraditions that endured, unchallenged, for millennia. Defiantly, we created new possibilites. The average American with an SSN, a drivers license , and a mortgage is a revolutionary to a degree that reveals Karl Marx and Che Guevara as dilettantes. While revolutionaries elsewhere sought to impose arid philosophies on humankind - at the cost of hundreds of millions of lives - we created a perpetual revolution of the people, by the people, and for the people.
The American Revolution isn't a single event summed up by the date 1776. Our revolution began when the first colonists arrived with their backs turned to an old, limiting world and began to carve a new Jerusalem from virgin timber. Our revolution never stopped - even our Civil War was a revolutionary struggle, the only civil war ever fought to free a never enfranchised, powerless group. We have changed nearly every aspect of the social and economic orders that prevailed fo rcenturies. An dour openess to the new threatens those whose allegiance lies with the barren, dying order - even within our own population. As we pioneer change each day of our lives, those who fear and reject change yearn to stop us, whether we speak of Islamic terrorists in love with a punitive god, French presidents embittered by the loss of status for which their citizens lacked the courage to fight, or the dwindling ranks of domestic bigots.
The distance between us and the rest of the world is growing greater, not lessening.
Consider how much has changed in a half century of American life, in this great age of revolutions, and you begin to understand how threatening our society appears to those who live their lives in thrall to yesterday..
May God continue to Bless America.
February 4th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Wasn't it oil and two World Wars?
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
This is wrong
First you are talking about the US of A, NOT America. These two are NOT the same thing. The US is only one of 37 American nations the citizens of all 37 nations are Americans.
"For all the complaints we must bear about America -the price of our success and the product of human jealousy -"
Incorrect, the reason there is hatred in the world towards the US IS NOT because of our economic success, it is because in order to obtain that success we pushed, shoved, destroyed anybody that got in our way to the top. We took Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines from Spain. We took Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada Nebraska, Wyoming, Oregon and parts of other states from Mexico. We split Colombia in two when they asked too much for THEIR land and we needed the Panama canal, we destroyed Argentina's navy without declaring war so that Britain could keep that Malvinas, we artificially created a bunch of kingdoms in the middle east to have control of te resources there, we destroyed Palestine to install the Jewish state, we supported many tyrannical regimes in Africa for dubious reasons … I could go on and on but you get the idea. The reason for the hatred it is not that we are at the top, is that in order to get there we had to push everybody else out of the way, obviously we stepped on a toe or two while doing that.
"But their children line up by the millions to apply for U.S. Visas"
And they would apply to any other nation that was on top if the US did not hold that spot. They are trying to make a better living not come to the US, it just happens that in order to do that the US is the logical destination as it is on top.
"We are not hated for what we have done to others, but for what we have done for ourselves. The example of our success is humiliating and bitter to all those who cling to traditions our power reveals as inadequate."
Substantiate this and the claims along those lines that follow.
"The American Revolution isn't a single event summed up by the date 1776."
Actually the American Revolution started with the United Statesian war of independence but it did not end with it. The American Revolution ended with the defeat of the Spanish army in the battle of Junin in 1825, and with that, the last European Colonial power was removed from America, 50 years after it begun with the United Statesian revolution.
"May God continue to Bless America."
Yes indeed, for those whose primitivism allows them to believe in supernatural forces, may it Bless America from Nome to Patagonia.
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I think it slightly odd that your country is "humankind's pioneers" and yet one of the youngest nations on the earth. What exactly have you been smoking?
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
A bigger load of bullcrap I have yet to read
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Well it's like this…. maybe it's becourse your all so clever. The space shuttle… men on the moon… what more can i say…. Big head….. bye bye from kenneth w in the good old u.k.
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
id take my hat off to u if i wore one inside uve spent ages writing ure question to get a simple answer, america is the greediest country known to man u have nearly 7 million either in jail or pending trial how can a country posssibly survive without pillaging other less fortunate countrys"with oil "
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I think i`m going to puke!!.
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
How long did it take for you to type out that chapter from your US government book? Might want to finish reading the entire book before you post another rhetorical question
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Thank you, and good night !
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Your question is a good one, but when you follow it up with a two page rant you demonstrate you do not really want to have people give you thoughtful answers.
You are actually playing up to steortype that Americans are boorish, ignorant, loud and unreasonable.
I may know this is not the case, but you are not winning any converts to your cause.
Why not simply ask the question and read what people think?
I am sympathetic to your viewpoint but quite frankly I got bored reading your jingoistic claptrap one third the way through.
Better luck with your susequent posts.
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
That rather long post feels ever so much word for word like a cut and paste job from some US politician's speech.
I have seen your posts here and there before : if you are indeed American then you do seem like one of those who thinks there really is nothing the USA can ever learn from others because it always does everything right and never needs to change its behaviour. One of those Americans who, as the invasion of Iraq approached in 2003, spoke out in an intimidatory manner against any of your compatriots who had the shocking temerity to criticse your President GWB for what he was doing. America the land of the free? Only if they don't have a dissenting opinion.
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
There is no USA. Those who chose to settle there and called themselves Americans dispatched the legitimate population, you are a mongrel nation, as are many in the west. You are a very young country with no cohesive history, you have taken the best from all who chose to live there. Nothing wrong with that, in fact I think its a brilliant thing. What makes me sick though is that you dismiss all this diversity of culture and claim it as American. Those who are not Americans do not fear you because we have made you what you are. Think of the "Mayflower" think of the "Puritans" think of your judicial/ electoral system, that is just the British! Think also of all the other cultures that have made your country what it is. To label America in such a way is an insult to all who helped to make you what you are. "Revolutionary" I think not, you do not have enough independent history. God bless freedom and democracy by all means but you did not invent it!
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February 4th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Do you think your bombers are killing thousands of innocent poor people for freedom? What about "illegal combatants" in cages? Invade a country and criminalize those who wish to defend it. Isn't double standards the point? Just look at how extreme your viewpoint is. You ought to be ashamed but I know your not!
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