Our country contains elements of all the greatest nations
throughout history yet no people have enjoyed all the luxuries
Americans now have. Our strength is diversity, and the right of
the people to freely express varying culture, language,
religion, and voice. Not every empire or age ever strove for
equality the way the United States does today. What astounds me
is that many take for granted how we achieved this enormous
feat.
One similarity between our country and others is that we were
birthed out of a revolution, like Rome, France, and Russia. We
were solidified through civil war like the Persians and English.
If the Japanese had not attacked us breaking our policy of
isolationism during World War II there is no telling how far the
fire of tyranny would have spread over the face of the earth or
if we would be where we are. Liberals choose to forget that
America was not a country that magically sprang up out of
nowhere. The world was spilling blood over our lands even before
the thirteen colonies were formed, especially the British and
French. In just over two-hundred years we have been involved in
major and minor conflicts within and outside of our borders
which in turn have granted the freedoms and luxuries we embrace.
In my experience, when liberals demand we leave Iraq before
their forces are ready to take the helm they are demanding we
forget our heritage and the memory of the men and women that
allowed us the many, many freedoms we enjoy. There was a weapon
of mass destruction found there. It is the mind-set of the
insurgency bent on destroying democracy and our lifestyle, the
way so many others tried and failed.
Today, America's population is over 300 million but only
twenty-five million men and women have served in the military
throughout our entire history! Every service member today serves
by choice so let them do what they are trained to do so we can
keep on enjoying our legacy as the greatest, freest, safest
country in the history of the world. There is a harsh reality
that war is the way of history and Americans, though we shield
many forgetful people from it, are the best at it.
- Spc. Esposito
