Erin_B

America and I have a love-hate relationship. Sometimes I hate this nation with a hot firey passion and would use that passion to burn the shit factory down. Sometimes I'm proud of my citizenship because I'm allowed to call this country a shit factory. Sometimes I really don't give a shit and would rather move to Canada or Sweeden and be neutral then to support troops killing innocent samaritans in a pointless war. In the 1600's people came to America to be free (religiously and economically). We were trying to escape from being smothered by big, bad England and were striving to become independent. Now with our troops risking their lives in the Middle East, we're becoming what we fought to get away from. Police officers and army members murder people everyday. I call it murder because no matter what anyone says it is not their rightful duty to kill innocent people. In my opinion war doesn't solve anything. You only win when the "enemy" has no more money or no more people to willingly kill. In my opinion, war is shit. This past January we elected Obama to be our President. Our nation was thrilled and hopeful that just maybe he can make a difference and save our struggling economy. Sure we have a black president, but does that erase our past? Does that bring back the millions of lives that were lost over slavery? Does that mean that the KKK is finally put to rest? No. Anyhow, 8 months ago America was thrilled to have hid our shameful history of racism and elect Obama. Now, however, citizens are starting to rally against Obama because they're too impatient and too ignorant to see the difference he is actually making. The whole reason we're in such debt is because we're spending trillions of dollars killing people in the middle east. We could have just made a peace treaty! Why retaliate with violence when all we get back is violence with a clear conscience. I know if I killed someone I would'nt be able to live with myself, so how can we as a nation live with that guilt? Are we that spineless? What does war really solve in the end? A higher death rate? Is that really our goal as the United States of America? It's ridiculous. But when I think about it, I remember I have the __choice__ to die for this shit factory or I can just sit back and watch everything burn up in flames. And even if I wanted to put out those flames, I'm only a minor and currently don't have the right to do anything about it. But, I have the right to say what I want and when I want and not get the death penalty for it. I have the right to say that I think it's a joke that "God" is on our dollar bills and in the Pledge of Allegiance (aganist other nations) when most people nowadays don't even believe in the so called creator of the universe. This is an ongoing debate in my mind whether to hate this place i call home or not.