No, it wasn't. While there are many in this country who don't care, who have fallen to the evil, the majority of us are still a people of hope. We live every day doing our jobs, saying our prayers, supporting our troops, providing for our families, friends and the needy. This is the America I know. It's the America that scares the s--- out of Bin Laden and all those who have pledged their lives to the destruction of any who disagree with them.
Americans have pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to defend and uphold the concept that we will be a free people dedicated to the idea that all of us are created equal.
I still believe. I'm sorry you don't. By not believing, you may have already been defeated.
Star, my point is that YOU, personally, don't feel that way. I'm quite sure of that.
You said -- "No, it wasn't."
Follow that thread back. You'll see...
Regards,
Star Traveler
You also said -- "It's the America that scares the s--- out of Bin Laden and all those who have pledged their lives to the destruction of any who disagree with them.
Americans have pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to defend and uphold the concept that we will be a free people dedicated to the idea that all of us are created equal."
It's not America that bin Laden should be afraid of. Rather.., it's the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he should be afraid of.
And it's this same God who is the one who "endows" us with certain unalienable rights. It's not America who does this. And these rights are not simply "American rights". They are the rights that the Creator (the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) gave to "human beings" -- not Americans.
It does America well that she has "codified" some of these rights -- but it's not uniquely American. Rather, it's "Biblical'.
I hope you have your "foundation" correct, and that foundation does not lie in America.
Regards,
Star Traveler