"Without America,Who Else?"

"Nyah, nyah, you are ugly!","Nyah, nyah you are fat!". Growing up I'm sure we've all heard these phrases uttered at one time or another either by other children or ourselves directed toward some poor kid that has been chosen to be ostracized by the group. No childhood goes by without memories of the "out-sider", the kid that everybody made fun of; the last one picked for teams, the one who is never invited to sit with you at lunch.

We had a boy in our class named Carmine, he was overweight, had "buck teeth", and body odor. He endured numerous insults from many of his class-mates, and I'm sure being an adolescent made the insults doubly hurtful.

Carmine was the manager of our football team, another name for water boy, the only way a kid with no ability could earn a letter. We stored our extra footballs and pads over the gym on the corrugated ceiling; this ceiling was thin and you had to use a suspended walkway to retrieve equipment or you would fall to the gym floor, about 25 feet down. Well you can figure out the rest of this story from here; Carmine stepped off the walkway and fell to the gym floor. Suddenly it was no longer funny to ridicule Carmine, as he now was lying on a hospital bed with multiple fractures. He became a human being instead of a joke.

I'd like to take time today to speak about the American heart, the spirit that makes our country different than all the rest. Our people are responders to emergencies whenever they a occur and wherever they occur. This is one of the reasons I'm proud to be an American.
Oddly enough this is one of the reasons the rest of the world resents the United States so fervently. We are accused of being arrogant and proud, looking down on the rest of humanity.
France, Germany, Venezuela, and others have vilified us to the other nations projecting an image of the "ugly American" who think they are superior to everyone else; yet when trouble arrives the United States is always the first that these same nations cry to for assistance and funding. Suddenly we become "Human" to them.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want us to stop giving aid to the needy, to supply food, medicine, or necessary military support to nation that are immersed in a chaotic situation. What I would like to see is a little gratitude, especially from those nations who would probably be speaking German except for the fact that the United States stepped in for them when they had little to no hope of victory in a bad situation.

For the above reasons I find it unreasonable for our President to apologize for any action we have taken for the defense of our own people from any radical group, be it foreign or domestic, and regardless of which administration was in power.
Therefore Mr. Obama I ask that you stop apologizing for our own acts of self protection, and realize that George W. Bush took the necessary steps to protect and defend the people of America in a time when we needed a strong and decisive action against an evil and dedicated enemy.

Let's forget about what the rest of the"class" says about us, after all when things get rough they call on the "nerd" for help.