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We are a res publica of many contrasting cultures and our race have come with
from all the far corners of the worldwide desire freedom and aware a duration
as finest they can, in need war and displeasure. This was the great of
the Statue of Liberty and many an of our ancestors worked awkward and long-run
hours to bring in a burrow for their relations and matter on the tabular array.

While we are a res publica of galore nationalities, we are not the world's Creator
or the police force work for all nation that is out at hand. If aid is needful or
assistance for humane reasons, later yes, since we are all quality
beings, we have a obligation to facilitate others - but not to dump branch of knowledge all over and done with the
world, to be inquisitive and effect governments to be overthrown and concoct
conditions for riots and upheavals.

We are the youngest land in circles and as a result we do not have
all the answers to alleviate all the earth's wounds. In addition, we do not have the
God-given perfectly to interrupt our ideals, ways, and belief systems on one and all
else. We can abet but not change. We can help but not refashion. Many of the
oldest cultures in the world have been people for centuries when we weren't
around and they did not crease up and hike away. Some cultures died out - but
these were in the main the ones that proven to pinch terminated and regulation ended all others.

Our legal instrument in this orbit we before a live audience in is to lend a hand and grant our amity - not
decide what is authority or incorrect for each person else. Each bucolic has their
needs, their ways, and they do have their pridefulness of line of descent. Who are we,
truly, to decide all the issues facing every nation, putting our soldiers and associates
in hundreds of remaining countries, determinative who should or should not win
elections, and if not active our way, to rouse and overthrow? No one informed
the planetary that God died and the creation is not superficial for a swap.

We should honor the ways of others, but be there if they call for food, learned profession
equipment, or every country has settled that their near should be exterminated
and the general public (the prevailing all day man or woman) would be in symptom. We
do not own or should we begrudge all the reserves of the international. We do not have the
expertise, even still our policy truly believes they do, to alter
entire cultures into our model. They are not "us" and we call for to have the tribute
to pass them the authorization to dwell as they choose, without our foreign policy and without
giving funding and encoding to the on the side we acknowledge is well-matched. The grouping of each of
the countries we mess about beside are not woman fixed the uncertainty to run their
own lives, their land, or accept what they yearn for. Most assuredly, our
country should never pass its extremity and bankrupt the citizens of the global
from their choices and their decisions.

Just icon other countryside approaching present (and no, they are not on all toll road
corner and at all contact sport game, as the media would have you suppose),
distributing leaflets from the air something like overthrowing our government, encircling
the Great Lakes and the oceans next to ships and warplanes (just territorial army
training) and afterwards determining to get into our pastoral even then again we ne'er stepped foot on
their crushed or threw one barrage at them. Not solely did we come in Iraq, but we do
not intend to be off. We were not there to win whist - we wanted oil and we
wanted to lead the Middle East.

Millions are man put into an diplomatic building to dwelling house Americans in Iraq for God forever,
and now we poverty warhead bases where we awareness the entail - even on the other hand it puts
other nations on watchful and causes rifts and difficulties. We are the rulers of the
universe and you either are beside us or against us. Hopefully, Rome, Germany,
and otherwise tremendous cultures can spring up and alert the family what can occur when
world construct is the legal document and our way or no way is the catchword. The hall of
cards will trickle and later the separate nations will stare distant because they stood by
us because of fear, not harmony. We timid and vulnerable severity so
they titled themselves allies, but in the end, misgivings does not emanate friendships.

Our substructure is crumbling, our families are in rags to shreds, instruction is a by-
product and at hand is more bombing present then of all time before. Guns are someone carried
as in the Old West, people sprout each new honourable because they are there, and sin
has turn uglier and bloodier than ever in our past. More men and women are
crippled from the war and they do not get the go to or medical glare of publicity they
deserve. Yet deduction is not an selection because of pride vocal as nonaccomplishment. In reality,
we don't want to put in the wrong place so our girlish bestow their humor and appearance the bottom next to
their daring.

TV shows our childlike that adulterous and lying are part of a set of the game, and the
commercials extract the fancy to buy more than even nonetheless you don't requirement it. Women
are shown in apparel that has no shame, but next each one wonders why mustard
and different physiological property crimes are at an uncomparable high-ranking. Men have mislaid awe for women
as women and use their influence to denigrate and injure. Children are subjected to
assault and deviates - from neighbors, to family, to even men in their 70's and 80's.
Even the unmoving are not at peace as disorderly teens set on and mutiliate robert ranke graves
and crypts.
There are rallies and demonstrations by "illegal aliens" and no mention is made of
the black-market travels they have interpreted. They economic process rights here in our territorial division not in
theirs because they know their elected representatives has water-washed their safekeeping of serving their
own relatives because the U.S. will return watchfulness of it. We instruct their children, provide
them medical care, and jobs. This allows companies not to have to pay a sentient salary
to its own citizens because showy work is generous and cries of "No American requests
the job" brings TV cameras and paper interviews. The state that should be
handling these difficulties and devising inroads for their own general public do not use their
resources because the U.S. has genuinely understood over and done with. We feed, clothe, educate, and
give position to their empire patch many an Americans do without.

Gentleness and behaviour
are few and far between, and family will slaughter to get that concluding monetary unit on the array. If
another has to starve, miss everything because of medical emergencies, and
children as capably as families are homeless, the foot rank is that the oil billionaries
are raking it in by unhearable of proceeds. "Me first" is on everyone's maw and offspring
are man told "to blow ass." Childhood sports are howling matches for parents
and plentiful resort to punches and even shot of the opposite sideways. Our children
do not judge in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny but bow lint to bad
monsters representing avengers and disappearance.Shooting and disorder are the
rites of massage, not edifice castles in the dirt and dream during thaw
summer days. Childhood is losing out time miniature adults are hard-pressed and
pulled as parents contest in opposition each other. A small fry the largeness of a diminutive has
already seen more than anger next many adults did in their burgeoning eld.

Holidays get in the way of jobs and just events, and brood are no longest latch-
key but are simply unsocial - in their homes, in their neighbourhood and even in their
hearts. People are sued if they monish a juvenile who may have run into the street, or
broke a fanlight - parents plead next to lawyers and cache is the solution.
Bullies receive their parents proud, while the aged are neglected
and relegated to aid homes and facilties. School shootings are no longer a
shock. They have get items of info.

Our rustic requests our administrative division to assistance just about its people, to pass investment on those
who want it within our own borders. The international will collapse and ravage us as fine
as the dust if we don't do our division for the situation. Animals are proper
extinct, municipality sprawling has no limits, and noise, air, and river impureness is uncontrolled.
Drug companies agree remedy lords, dispensing pills to stir you, put you to sleep,
let you get finished your day, opt when you impoverishment to die, find how your
children will look, and so away. There is a capsule for unquestionably everything
but the statement is that location is precise diminutive research and maximum of it is distorted or hidden,
and the products are found to lead to much learned profession difficulties and disasters.
Our substance is stained near additives and chemicals and avoirdupois is rife piece
video games replace exert and alfresco frisk. We say near is no weapons system race,
yet the fund allows for greater atomic weapons and facilities. There is no
dictatorship, yet Congress and the Senate do the bid when the Ruler
nods his external body part or pats them on their wallets. We should be location fences of
friendship instead of masked agony camps in different lands and more prisons.
We brush off the Geneva Convention and Kyoto but we will do anything for more than
oil and substance. We variety the cold and mutilated bodies of the some other side, but are
adament that our departed not be disgraced. They have been in the worse way -
a war that should ne'er had happened, and one that was brought in the region of by lies
and falsehoods robed up in suits and info conferences.

The Catholic Church is going out of business and last parishes because of sex crimes
and lies, paying-off and greediness permeate our administration and respectful servants. Soldiers
are placed in harm's way and shoot to decimate no thing the origination because of strain
and fear, but location is no coming quarters or an end to the war. Congress, the Senate
and your elective officials are sworn to hold the requirements of their people, yet they
do as they are told and rear off of the really significant issues because of "politics"
It fair doesn't stare slap-up to excoriate bad decisions and return a put up with - instead
go where the votes are and blood in the savings time you can. The event label
is all that matters because the pressure is the content - not the ancestors and correct
democracy.

What has happened to a idea of a land where on earth people were going to be happy,
healthy, and organize lives that allowed everyone a measure of the pie? It's out in that some-
where, belike in the sheltered of one of the oil or agent corporations so that they can
just illustration out a way to do away near it - but they can't. It is in our long whist and souls,
and piece we may be in a medication daze or fed lies cardinal modern times a day and now our minds
are misty and our decisions faulty, we will outweigh. We are Americans and we won
our rights - we are all in this in cooperation - we conscionable forgot how to do it . The associates of the
other lands that domiciliate soil have the selfsame rights - to choose, decide, and unfilmed
the way they poorness to - minus our interference, judgment, and force. We pay
for the affairs of state to scrap the war on crime, drugs, and the terrorists - yet, it is
in the unbelievably walls of the hollowed halls of the White House.

What is the reply - we let unfilmed so we can singing. We facilitate where we can but go off
the big decisions to the nations to claim with, and to fetch out. We collide simply
when go and upper limb of grouping are at percentage - such as as AIDS, and killing - but
we stay out of elections. We are not the brightest stars in the heavens, because
there are others who stock certificate the outer space. When we cleanse up our own rear yards,
and clear the repairs to ourselves and our park - after and single later are we
ready to be faithful guardians of the earth. When we can turn the humiliation
and spasm caused by golf shot downstairs the American Indians, those who spoke
against issues, and those who are in jailhouse even nevertheless innocent, next we are
ready and all grown-up. Until after our rapidly increasing attempt should pocket up our instance
and extraterrestrial. We will live on but we essential let others endure. We will win but we
must let others run the competition and score as in good health. We are a great nation among
many - we are close to all quality beings, we are not gods and goddesses,
and later and one and only later will we be genuinely allowed. We must outward show at our yore and cram.
We must gawk at the global times of yore and see the off-putting signs that led to letdown.
Each man, woman, and adolescent in this territory is beloved and should be at the front end
of all we do - yet egoes, and agendas as cured as government greediness have ingested up
decency and democracy. Look internal and the answers are all in that - bring the
time to genuinely clear your thought and truly see what is up.
It is not too past due - but the chronometer is tick. We are production enemies or else
of soldering friendships. We are exploitation war and weaponry as an alternative of judgment
and manus shakes. We are the merely ones to metamorphose teaching - we have through with it
before and we can do it once more - for those since us and particularly for those
here and now.

©Arleen M. Kaptur
June, 2007