Posted on 06/29/2005 4:13:53 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The disappearance of an 18-year-old girl from Alabama in Aruba is not only terrifying, but a harbinger of just how much danger Americans expose themselves to when they step outside the boundaries of the U.S.A.
In the first place, the rights we are guaranteed under our constitution do not exist outside our borders. If you have the misfortune of being incarcerated in a foreign country you can forget about the mandatory phone call and anything else you’ve been guaranteed under our form of government.
Take it from one who knows. Back in my wild old days I was once put in jail in Juarez, Mexico. It’s a lowdown, lonesome, helpless feeling, being a gringo in the hands of the Mexican police. Thank God some people came over from El Paso and got me out.
But another and very salient point is that I don’t think a lot of foreign countries appreciate our patronage and our Yankee dollars.
Take France for instance. Do you really think they respect us when we go over there? No, they just put up with us, just tolerate us. They want to sell us their wine but that just about sums up their sincere feelings toward us.
In my opinion Mexico and the other Latin American countries have become dangerous for Americans to travel in. The reason being that they are so inundated with the drug trade and the thugs who run it who have neither decency nor conscience. Kidnap and murder are all in a day’s work for them.
And of course we know about the Middle Eastern and Southwest Asian countries.
Of course good old Australia is always happy to have us and have been one of our best friends for a long time and a great place to visit. Ditto new Zealand and the British Isles.
If you would believe the media in Canada you would think that we were not welcome there. But I don’t happen to ascribe to their theories. I believe that the vast majority of the Canadian people still welcome us with open arms. And it’s certainly not a dangerous place.
The point is there are a lot of places in the world that just don’t like Americans and maybe we’d be better off if we just stayed at home for a few years, if we devoted our foreign aid dollars to repairing our infrastructures and policing our inner city streets.
Has anybody noticed a marked difference in Russia after we gave them billions of dollars to bolster their fledging democracy? The Russian mafia has just grown stronger and the people the money was intended to help are still suffering.
Our politicians continue to pour American dollars down the bottomless abyss while the world at large just doesn’t seem to like us. And do you know something? That doesn’t bother me a whole lot.
Maybe it’s time we just stayed at home.
Pray for our troops.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
June 27, 2005
I don't think aruba is ipso facto more dangerous than America, only less useful when trying to cleanup trouble.
Ha! Charlie at his best. Bless him.
Aruba - Cleveland? Gotta go wtih Cleveland...
Aruba - LA? LA hands down...
Aruba - Vegas? too close to call...
Baghdad - Detroit? Too close to call...
hey wait a minute how did that GET in there!!!
I agree!
Screw Aruba.
The only things it sends to America is American tourists with empty wallets.
Oh, and the drugs that find their way to and through Aruba on the way to the US.
Spot on. To quote an old phrase, "America First". And to those that disagree, please spare me the but-if's.
Charlie Daniels for Congress!
Yes......let's all stay home and quake in our size 1 boots...
I think I might volunteer for Aruba. It's that heroic streak in me.
Ridiculous. Never traveling outside of your own country is stultifying. This girl got in trouble because she made bad choices, not because of where she was. It could have happened in Wildwood, NJ.
How about we continue to pillage and take advantage of ignorant nations? I for one will continue to travel on business as needed, yet pleasure trips will certainly not support hostile countries. Even if the common people are fine.
Except for Georgia. I was there in May and fully intend to return. Georgia is awesome. Ask President Bush.
Yes, those Dutch and their colonies....sniff. How about normal Americans growing some spine and realizing that downtown DC is much more dangerous than Aruba, oh wait, the TV isn't filled with 24/7 pictures of DC murders.......
ping
Before 9/11 my husband and I were planning a trip to Europe to see much of Germany and France.
Their hostility towards the US stopeed those plans. Australia is looking interesting now.
Excellent! Thanks!
What...an...idiot.
I would spend a year on the streets of aruba rather than one night on the streets of Detroit, Washington DC, Chicago or a host of other Armerican cities.
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