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What happened to the “can do” nation?
America is the greatest nation the world has ever known. Our achievements in science, medicine, technology, etc are unsurpassed. Consider the following:
- A ragtag group of “insurgents” beat Great Britain and founded the United States.
- We led at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
- In 1917 we had the 17th largest military in the world. At the end of WWI we had 2 million troops in Europe.
- After Pearl Harbor we rebuilt our pacific fleet then proceeded to kick the crap out of Axis powers in four short years.
- We built the first nuclear weapon and created nuclear power.
- We are the most medically advanced nation on the earth. Most major medical breakthroughs and drugs come from the United States.
- The Chinese recently announced they would put a man on the moon in 2020. We did it in 1969. We now make regular flights into space via the space shuttle to the ISS, which was mainly our incarnation.
- We defeated the Soviet Empire - an empire that had over 40,000 nuclear weapons pointed at us.
- We invented the internal combustion engine, train, and airplane. Â
- We invented the telephone, TV, the radio, and the Internet.
- We invented the computer, and microchip.
- Our military might and power is decades ahead of our enemies.
- We have the most advanced system of higher education on the planet.
- America’s economy is the driver of the world economy.
Even so, with all that greatness, we have become the “Katrina” nation. A nation that could not even help a U.S. city after a destructive natural disaster. Buchanan states:
“In August 2005, Katrina swept through New Orleans and left 30,000 people stranded at the Superdome and Convention Center. Though the floodwater was shallow and stagnant and New Orleans is a port city with boats all over the place, it took six days and the 82nd Airborne to rescue the stranded.
Compare our performance in Katrina with that of the Brits in 1941, who sent hundreds of boats across the Channel to pull 350,000 British and French troops off the continent in one week in the Miracle of Dunkirk. The Brits weren’t going to let Goering’s fighters deter them from going across and bringing their boys home.
What occasions these reflections is this morning’s lead story in The Washington Post: ‘Virtual Fence’ Along Border to Be Delayed: U.S. Retooling High-Tech Barrier After 28-Mile Project Fails.’
In short, these characters cannot build a virtual fence and won’t complete a physical fence. If the nation is fed up with Republicans, who can blame them?“
What has become of this once great nation? How do we get it back?
I agree completely. The only problem is - will the democrats do any better? We used to be a nation who took care of ourselves and looked out for others. Now we look out for ourselves and expect others to take care of us.
Left by Rand on 02/29/2008