When things spiral out of control or ignorance of levels unacceptable rear their ugly head on our planet the US has an obligation to act. The reasons for this obligation are fairly obvious, but may need a little more detailed explanation.

Some of you may be familiar with this song written by B. Scott and B. Russell and performed by many artists over the years:

The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows when
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there
For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share
And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

This song, He Ain't Heavy, he's my Brother, has been sung by many over the decades and has been known to bring hardened men to tear up at the basic fundamental message. It's a particularly American institution and cuts across economic, racial and urban demographics.

Unlike many societies in the world the US considers itself a charitable nation and when someone suffers in another part of the world - we feel that burden as if it was going on right here in our own nation. We are incapable of the aloof "intellectual" detachment of the Europeans or the callous disregard for human suffering shown by the Chinese, who have grown numb to it. We don't blindly accept it as do the Russians who have had almost a century's practice to deal with suffering by drowning it and making quasi-pragmatic jokes and proverbs about it.

No, America is a land of action. We don't sit on the bleachers and shout but instead we step up to the plate for a chance at bat and address the problem's of the world directly. The US views all makind as it's "brother" and we have indeed saved the world in two world wars, attempted to clean up a French disaster in southeast Asia, give hundreds of billions of dollars in international aid yearly.

For this the US is not only been thanked in the prayers and thoughts of many whose lives have been saved and changed by our intervention - but we have become, due to other nations inability, selfishness or retinence, the world's de facto policeman. The UN is the world's de jure policeman and due to the vast disparity of morals and laws of the many member nations, it's the cop on an eternal donut break.

Since 2001 the world has awakened to a new reality - an American policeman that is much more active and able bodied than ever before. To the criminals and moral lowlanders this is an "evil" thing. Just as they had grown accustomed to getting away with the worst actions the US has to appear and threaten all of their ill-gotten gains. Many nations on this planet are led by folks who freely support the trade of drugs and human slavery, many not only supporting it but letting such trades support them.

President Bush addressed the UN and spoke of these things and the media quickly buried it to focus on their efforts to destroy the US victory in Iraq. Naturally most of the global media are moral lowlanders, many positively exist in subterranean depths and shun all light and goodness.

It is because of these reasons that the US must carry the world and, more importantly, will carry the world despite the moans and groans of the many nations' lowlanders.

President Bush is hated by many who see him as the embodiment of the threat to their drug trade, slave trade or right to kill and murder their citizens without retribution. it makes them very uncomfortable to see some global cop peering over their borders to see what some "leader" or political group is doing to some of our brothers.

Yes, each human is a de jure resident of their birth nation - and the best gift for all humanity is that they are a de facto citizen of the United States.

He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

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