An African Writer Reminds Readers Who's First When Tragedy Strikes

As if this is something Americans need to be reminded of, although there is that liberal "Blame America First" faction out there amongst us that certainly does need to be reminded just who it is that is always first in line with aid, comfort and financial relief whenever a tragedy strikes anywhere around the world, often in countries where we are despised and in fact hated.

Yet when these people need help beyond their attainable means, we Americans are still there with the endless aid that is never returned nor asked to be, NEVER. At least there are some out there around the world that recognize this fact openly, although there aren't many.

Yanks just can’t mind their own business

Daily Dispatch Online: "Surprise, surprise. The first relief planes which flew into Burma, or Myanmar, as its military junta, much cared for by our Department of Foreign Affairs, calls that godforsaken place, were American military planes carrying precious bottled water, food, medicines and mosquito nets, all paid for by American taxpayers and given willingly with no strings attached.

As is well known, Burma has been ruled by a brutal and murderous military junta since 1988, and is now suffering not only the yoke of collectivist brutality but also the fierce lash of nature, which renders puny all of man’s works.

Aren’t they irritating, those Americans? They just won’t mind their own business.

Remember early last century when they went to Europe to rescue the Allies from those rampaging Germans?

And they did it again when the Japanese attacked them at Pearl Harbour in 1941.

No, it wasn’t enough for them to supply the Allies with arms, ammunition, aircraft and so on. Oh no, they had to be clever and go and send a couple of million of their young men to the fighting fields as well.

Just think, if they hadn’t been so impulsive (very shallow people, you know) we could all be living under a fascist regime, probably something like that of Burma or, at the very least, Zimbabwe.

However, we would have the protection, like Burma and Zimbabwe, of those intellectual, all-knowing ANC geniuses running the United Nations Security Council who have protected the little angel regime at all costs.

However, come to think of it, if those interfering Yanks hadn’t stepped in during the Second World War (remember it?) then we wouldn’t have had the UN anyway.

And if they hadn’t insisted on shelling out billions for decades, the UN would not have survived and we would all have been spared the torture of listening to those idiots who chatter away there at taxpayers’ expense.

They just don’t think, these Americans.

As the US Agency for International Development gets stuck into the problems of Burma, let us cast our minds back to events in another Far Eastern country, South Korea.

Once again, it was those interfering Americans (with, let it be said, the approval of the UN) who denied the communist north, aided by China, from crossing the 38th parallel and installing yet another noxious collective.

Thus, thanks to those blasted Americans, and after a few decades of scrapping between various despots, democracy came to South Korea, and with it, prosperity and stability.

South Koreans earn an average of R200000 a year, the women live to 81, Aids is less than 0.1 percent and literacy 98 percent.

But there’s no stopping those Yanks.

In selfish pursuit of domestic security and the spread of democracy, they mired themselves in Vietnam, to the delight of such intellectual powerhouses as “Hanoi” Jane Fonda.

So they left Vietnam to the tender mercies of the collective. Decades of oppression, poverty and misery ensued, although this was not, for once, the fault of the Yanks who had all buggered off.

Well put.

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