 having liberated it from the clutches of Nazi evil. I grew up in a Europe where people named their I grew up in a Europe where everything American Then I came here, and America gave me her priceless freedom, her endless What a kind and generous nation.  U S A planes crashed into the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon........and all of us watched the countless videos of Bin Laden and his fellow-terrorist-goons sitting on the floor of their medieval caves, dressed in their medieval robes, as they enthusiastically and with great big evil smiles on their murderous faces, exchanged stories about the horrific terrorist attack by wich they slaughtered more than 4000 innocent men, women, and children, in one single hour. I tend to believe that we were all in a state of profound shock, and that no one, including everybody in Washington, was fully aware of what had actually occurred. The most appropriate reaction would probably have been for us to focus our entire military response on nothing else but to find Bin Laden, bring him back to the USA, and then convict him in a public tribunal filmed for all the world to see, of having orchestrated the most nefarious, peacetime act of terrorist violence ever perpetrated against any population on earth. Bin Laden should then have been shot to death by a U.S. Military firing squad. And that too, ought to have have been filmed for all the world to see. Then we should have bombed Mecca into oblivion, so that no goverment anywhere on earth, would ever again decide to support and encourage its criminal entities into attacking the United States of America.  U S A something about the disgusting truth that it accomplished nothing at all for decades, thereby creating the horrific reality that it was now sending our military personnel into harm's way with inferior weapons, outdated equipment, life-threatening vehicles, antiquated planes, and a total absence of personal body-armor. So now.......slowly.......that 911 massacre is achieving the unintended result of strengthening our military capabilities and thereby saving countless American lives today, as well as in the future.  STAGE ONE was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury, if our plans for Iraq were just one more example of American "empire building"? "Throughout the years," the U.S. Secretary of State answered, "America It suddenly became very quiet in that conference hall. STAGE TWO engineers -- including American ones -- one of the French engineers asked with a grin of sarcasm, "Remember that gigantic aircraft-carrier America sent to Indonesia to help out some tsunami victims? What did they intend to do.......bomb them?" A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly, "That aircraft-carrier Once again, deadly silence followed. STAGE THREE the U.S., British, Canadian, Australian, and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, the U.S. Admiral found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from all of these countries. Everyone was merrily chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks, when a French Admiral suddenly complained that while Europeans knew many languages, Americans seemed to speak only English. He then continued, "Why must we always speak English, during these conferences? Why can't we speak French?" Without hesitation, the U.S. Admiral replied, "Perhaps that's because You could have heard a pin drop! (author unknown) U S A the twentiest century "The American Century". Will the twenty-first century represent a second American century? TOM WOLFE: I believe we're on the edge of about 800 more years of American centuries. The biggest problem is all the people who see a problem. It's very fashionable, to think that the end is near. U S A Japanese imperialists.......and more than 450,000 U.S. troops died to liberate: Malaysia  are the most peaceful people on earth? I attended a fairly small kind of street-event in my town, last week. Artists, Toddlers, teenagers, grandparents. Long-haired guys, bald guys, moustached I saw beautiful women and sloppy jeans-type chicks. I saw women in skirts, in I saw faces that were slavic, baltic, mediteranian, native american, asian, Mostly, what I saw, was that nobody looked like anybody else, that every I stood there, and felt a warm affection for the people of my town and of America is the most fascinating It tolerates just about every It protects and encourages Which is why Americans can |