An Essay
To my Uncle Sam, an essay by an American student.
I write this for no class, under no pressure. I write this because I feel I should put some of my thoughts down in writing in a place where it is public in case someday I may not be able to.
Uncle Sam, America there is many thing I must say to my beloved country: some advice and some warnings, some reminders and some praise.
America you have recently took your place among the great powers of history. Taken your place along side Athens and Rome, the Ottomans and Victorian Britain. It gives you new found power along side new found responsibility. Today you have the power to control the world economy, to challenge any nation to war and to enforce your will anywhere in the world. Power that can be used many ways, for good and for ill. It is up to you to decide how to use the power.
You may use your power to better yourself and increase the glory of the nation like all the other powers before it. You may make it so the Red, White and Blue is feared and respected throughout the world as the Union Jack before it. You may make America an imperial power over which the sun never sets. A nation the envy of the entire world. But, that is not the way our power should be used. All glory is fleeting and every nation falls, making all our gains temporary and fleeting.
Or you may use your power to better the world, to bring peace and hope where there is none. You may be a great power unlike all before it. You may bring a Pax Americana not achieved by fear of a nation or a government, but one where every man and woman lives free and sees no need for war. You must do this by bringing freedom and hope to every corner of the world. Though we may be attacked by others doing this, it will be the way we can make our influence on the world permanent. Our nation is fleeting, but if we bring hope and peace to a world that needs it we will have a lasting effect.
Or you may give up our power and only mind our own business. This is what many in the world wants you to do. It would make many politicians happy, and lead to the singing of praise by them to whatever president chooses this option. But though the praise may drown out the cries for hope and freedom that people wish for, it will not end them. Those cries will always be there until their desire is achieved. Remember America what happened last time you chose not to intefere, and millions paid for it. This is not the route America must take.
May God bless the world, and guide America to decide the course it must take with its new found power as the world's superpower.
(I know the grammar is pretty bad, but that never was my strongpoint)
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Originally Posted by Templedog
I love the "I hate those horrible awful bigoted horrible religious people who are just so intolerant I want to just kill them all!!!!"
