Posted on 11/14/2005 1:13:55 PM PST by neverhome
For years uncounted, the United States has engaged in the noble practice of exporting American-style freedom. We first cleaned up our own back yard by ending slavery. We were successful in World Wars I and II. We could only reach a tie in the Korean War however, and we failed in Viet Nam. Now we are trying to export our brand of freedom to a Middle East that still exists in the Seventh Century and we continue, to a lesser degree, to export our best product to Communist China.
More and more, we see anti-American demonstrations in the European nations that we set free from Adolph Hitler. Two wars in Iraq have resulted in only modest progress. Israel is surrounded by enemies. China harvests U.S. military secrets as though we were a farm nation existing for their benefit, and we may see that technology turned against us in the near future.
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