Now we are told by our President that we are arrogant. Hum... Add that comment to the comments of being told we are cowards (Eric Holder) and responsible for a Mexican border war (Hillary Clinton); this makes me feel more than a little dejected by the current administration.
Let's go over how cowardice, arrogant and warmongering we are:
We liberated or protected these countries (That I can remember):
Cuba
France
England
Germany
Austria
Philippines
U.S.S.R. (and associated countries)
Iraq
Afghanistan
Panama
Kuwait
South Korea
South Vietnam
That is what I can remember for now, there are many more.
My grandpa's division (the 66th - Black Panthers) spent some time lobbing artillery shells at the Lorient sub pens in France during World War 2. They were there sent there instead of the Battle of the Bulge because on the way to the battle, in the English channel, one of the ships (Leopoldville) was sank by a German sub killing 800+ Americans. Were they arrogant? Were they cowards? Maybe just war-mongers...
My Father-in-law spend 23 years in the Navy on ships and C-130's during the Vietnam and Cold Wars. Is he arrogant?
My Step-brother was in Iran during the hostage crisis, was he a coward?
My Brother shot at Libyan planes on the wrong side of the "Line of Death". Was he a war-monger?
One of Pam's Grandpas, fought his way through the Philippines to liberate them. He must be arrogant.
Pam's other Grandpa landed in Northern France on June 6, 1944... a little place called Normandy. He must of done that out of cowardice, huh?
Let me tell you something, Mr. President, before you start calling us arrogant, cowards and war-mongers, think about the sacrifices that this country has given to the freedom and liberty of other countries. You actions are inexcusable, if you do not like this country why don't you leave; and leave us alone.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
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America is arrogant, and we have been that way since the beginning. We have always believed we have somehow been better than those outside our borders. Americans have always felt that the governments of Europe weren't as good as our representative system, that peoples of color were inferior and incapable of democracy (we have a tremendous history of racism), and that our way of life is the best and most civilized way to do things. I am not trying to say that I don't love my country and recognize all the good things we have, but we are extremely arrogant to force our ways upon others.
ReplyDeleteFor example, when the United States defeated the Spanish at the end of the nineteenth century, we acquired the Philippines islands. We didn't even give the Filipinos a chance to try to govern or rule themselves. Instead we forced our system upon the Filipinos based on the idea that our system was best and that these people were not ready or worthy of a chance to govern themselves. In 1899, The Secretary of the War Department Elihu (who was responsible for the Philippine Islands) wrote:
"Read that history, read that of all other tropical countries, and then show me a single instance of the successful establishment and peaceable maintenance, for a respectable period, of republican institutions, based upon popular self-government, under a tropical sun. To show me one, do not confine your search to the West Indies; look for it anywhere else on the face of the globe in tropical latitudes. I challenge Senators to point their fingers to a single one. There is not sir! ... The tropical sun inflames the imagination to inordinate activity and develops the government of passions. The consequences are natural, and there is a tendency to govern by force instead of by argument; revolutions are of chronic occurrence, like volcanic outbreaks, and you will find political life continually oscillating between two extremes - liberty, which there means anarchy, and order, which there means despotism."
Root is talking about the Filipinos as being incapable of solid government because the tropical sun and heat makes them incapable of rational thought. We would later take the Philippines under our protection to "civilize" them. Pres. McKinley made our protection and intervention on their behalf sound as if we were divine protectors when he said, "As high and sacred an obligation rests upon the Government of the United States to give protection for property and life, civil and religious freedom, and wise, firm and unselfish guidance in the paths of peace and prosperity to all the Philippine Islands." In other words, the United States is obligated by God to help these incapable people. Can we really say that about ourselves? Are our intentions really that altruistic and good? I think not, and in the case of the Philippines I know that the U.S. had greater imperialistic aims and trading goals (we wanted a stepping stone into the large Chinese markets) in our conquests oversees.
The Philippines is merely one example of our arrogance abroad and in foreign policy. We don't belong in every place we go and it is not or job to bring the American way of life to every person on Earth. Many people don't even want our system yet we shove it down their throats and expect things to work out like it did for us when we earned our independence as short 200 years ago.