The United States is often like the superhero you see in the movies. When the world has a problem, and no one else can help, the alarm goes out and it is Americans who answer the call. It does not matter if the crisis is military, humanitarian, or economic, since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution it has been Americans who have been called upon to solve the problems of the world no one else can handle.
It was President Theodore Roosevelt who brokered the peace and ended the bitter war between Russia and Japan in 1905. It was American soldiers and sailors who twice brought massive European wars to an end in 1918 and 1945. The United States provided protection for Western Europe and founded NATO for more than seventy years and still does to this day. It is American dollars and manpower which rebuilt nations after earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear accidents, and other disasters. The United States and its people are the most generous on the face of the planet, giving more in assistance to the world than the next twenty-two nations combined.
When innocent people were threatened with genocide in the Balkans, it was American air power that saved them from certain death. It was American soldiers who liberated tens of thousands of dying prisoners from Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps and then brought the criminals who perpetuated this crime to justice. American aide workers from the Peace Corps and other officially sanctioned organizations build schools, hospitals, water treatment plants, energy systems, and much more all across the impoverished world, never asking for anything financial in return. Unlike so many other nations, the United States does not insist on mineral rights or the placement of military bases before offering to help a country and its people in need. In Africa, Asia, Central America and everywhere else on the planet, it is the people of the United States who are taking the lead to feed the poor, protect the environment, cure the world’s most deadly diseases, and prevent despots from spreading their hate across borders. The world would be a dark and dangerous place without the United States, the country the world turns to when everyone else fails or has no clue what to do next.
