This was going to be patriotic....

How many nations on earth
would have had the restraint
if they had American military power
to refrain after 9/11
from just bombing the shit out of all their enemies
wiping them off the planet

Despite its many mistakes
America, the most powerful nation ever to exist in the history of mankind
rather than seeking to destroy
it still donates more money, food, supplies, manpower, experience and education to other nations than any nation in history
What country can say it has some of the richest people on the planet, who rather then keeping their wealth for their families, have donated the majority of their money to charitable causes
and still America is hated
partly because we are what every nation wants to be
rich, powerful and free
partly because we don't actually need to ask for permission from any other nation to do much of anything
partly because even after they hate us
we say "fuck you then" and go on
doing what we do
giving what we give
and never stopping once to say maybe we should stop giving away so much.



but then I remember it's not that the world hates us...
its that about 1/4 of the world is Muslim
add to that huge numbers of every other faith around the world...
all of whom hate Israel and Jews in general

and remember that fully 1/3 of America's generosity goes right to Israel.

Even though they may (at least Afghanistan) deserve it
the enemies of Israel are now one by one falling to America's sword.
Nations that share their religion with one in four people on this planet

Then you get to facts that remained hidden for very long...
Like the NY Times articles that were among the most important in building a drive to war with Iraq....
Which were written by a Jewish journalist, Judith Miller (leading some to suspect Israeli influence) who originally refused to reveal her sources...who turned out to be..
Ahmed Chalabi
who's he?
He's the new oil minister for the Iraqi government.
So...
The current oil minister of Iraq
was a main source of information that led to war in Iraq (putting him in power)
reported by a questionable journalist
(also known for compromising the identity of an undercover CIA agent)

The rest of the world certainly does not appreciate this.

"Probably the only members of Congress who even suspect the full total of U.S. funds received by Israel each year are the privileged few committee members who actually mark it up. And almost all members of the concerned committees are Jewish, have taken huge campaign donations orchestrated by Israel's Washington, DC lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), or both. These congressional committee members are paid to act, not talk. So they do and they don't." - Richard H. Curtiss, Washington Report