The following article is based freely on a reply I made to someone on a post:
Every so often, I see on here some comment by a foreign national or by a self-loathing, America-last, apologist US-born liberal, dumping on Americans for our supposed "arrogance". How we're arrogant doesn't always come up, but it seems we just are.
Well, as I've said several times before.....why shouldn't we be? After all, we've saved the world three times in the last hundred years alone.
From 1917 to 1991, in five major conflicts, we arrogant Americans allowed the blood of some of our best and brightest to be spilled on foreign soil, in the name of freedom for other people.
Twice in 20 years to Europe (once to save it from tyranny, the other to pretty much save it from its own short-sightedness, which resulted in a horrifying tyranny none of them could have guessed at); and as for Asia, we saved them twice, too; once from the Japanese, the other from the Chinese. You're welcome.
WWI, WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam and Desert Storm (and let's not forget the entire Cold War and all the money and supplies spent in that 40-year era) are all prime examples of American altruism. You're welcome.
Every year, billions of dollars, culled from the hard-earned taxes of us arrogant Americans, are sent overseas to prop up the failing economies of smaller, poorer countries; countries which wouldn't exist if we didn't send aid. You're welcome.
Every year, relief workers, more money and hundreds of tons of supplies (and more money) are sent overseas to assist with recovery operations after natural disasters, to fight disease and to help refugees from political strife, such as civil wars. You're welcome.
Yet, how many relief workers from overseas were there in Florida during the hurricanes, helping to board up windows and to clear debris and repair damage? None that I ever heard of.
I'm tired of hearing how arrogant we are, when we happily help those other nations and peoples that come to us in need. If the world would stop coming to us and asking us to solve their problems for them, maybe we wouldn't be so arrogant.
Our arrogance is well-earned, paid for in the blood of our fathers and grandfathers, and by all that which we willingly and cheerfully give to other nations. You're welcome.
We, these 50 United States of America, have done more, in less than three hundred years, than most other nations have done in milennia of existence. Others come here for a better life; they don't go to Germany, France, Russia, Findland, China, Cuba, Japan or Haiti. They come here, and we have a right to be proud, thank you very much.
To all those foreign nationals who see us arrogant Americans in such a harsh light., I close as I did in the reply I base this on:
"Start paying us back, or go get screwed."
And while I'm at it......shut up.