Reminds me when I was in Greece back in 1981. Reagan had just been inaurgerated. Already there was grafiti on walls calling Reagan a gangster. LOL. Silly people from the heart of the birth of western civilization.

Paralleogram
Much food for serious thought.
Thank you.

Jpm1602

If you look around you, you see the Constiution ripped to tatters, the Anthem is a joke in that the words (beautiful song, btw.) are a slap in the face of every American by the "powers that be" the words meant something not so long ago, but now with every American, more or less, a prisoner, who could at the drop of a hat, have his job taken away from him, his home, car, passport, do's it not seem a joke?

RWPBR
You wrote:

"We will get our problems straightened out in due time...we always do. "

That is something I am trying to get at here... Some say get your own problems sorted out first, then take on the problems in the World.

"Only the scared and weak among our citizens care if the rest of the world likes us or not."

Those people are def. not scared or weak, they are thinkers who look forward, do you think that the problems America face today, have come about because you Americans are so ready to help the rest of the World, it sounds ungrateful, I know, but in alot of cases, American wasn't asked for in the first place.

"We have fed them, freed them, rebuilt them and removed the threat of soviet communism and nazi-ism from the world stage. How soon the world forgets."

Yes you have, and a lot of people wouldn't be around today without it.
But
There was always a price we had to pay... please do not be so short sighted about that.

dnodnodno
Thanks for the input...l
Maybe a few people here should get the lyrics and try to relate to what I am trying to get across, there is no bad intent on my behalf, just seeking "truths" from the man in the street.