Proud to be an American

I listened to, what quickly became apparent was, a brain-dead women describe America as arrogant - not this politician or that political party as arrogant mind you, but America the whole nation as arrogant. She was an American living in Germany and was talking to a British fellow. I concluded that she was just seeking the Brit’s approval.

I’ve had the same discussion with this fellow and others along the way. When people start in on Americans, my response is always the same. The world ought to thank God that Americans are running America. The eyebrows go up and a quizzical look crosses their face. Then I point out, “What if the Germans ran America with all of its strength and wealth? What if the Japanese, Chinese, French or nearly any other people ran America with its wealth and power? The world would be significantly different and not in a good way. Americans for as much as the world likes to dump on us are the most generous, hardest working, fun loving, creative, compassionate people in the world. We protect the world, act as its policeman, as its 911 service, contribute more than any other nation to and host the worthless UN and ask for NOTHING in return. We don’t even care if the world likes us when we’re saving it from itself. Sure we’ve made mistakes. But nobody is harder on us than we are on ourselves when we do. So say what you want about America and Americans. We’re only the greatest, richest, freest and most open society in the history of the world. Oh yeah, we’re also the biggest bad-ass on the block. There is not one good thing that goes on in this world without our money and know how. It’s normal that as once great nations begin to fade they, like Lilliputians, try to tie the waking giant down. The word for it is jealousy.”