Good question.

In an article forwarded by email by S/SGT PKM one must wonder after reading this decidedly pro-USA piece by Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian…What’s the use? No matter all the good that our government does in the world today, critics both internally and externally consistently bash the generosity of the average American citizen when people suffer anywhere in the world.

This article is a good one. A question posed by the author, Albrechtsen asks the obvious, paraphrased - what if America didn’t show up at the next major disaster? What if….?

A terrific article that’ll make you wonder, what if?

Credit where it’s due

Janet Albrechtsen | May 14, 2008

THERE is a certain familiarity to the concomitant series of actions and reactions when disaster strikes in the world. The US stands ready, willing and able to offer assistance. It is often the first country to send in millions of dollars, navy strike groups loaded with food and medical supplies, and transport planes, helicopters and floating hospitals to help those devastated by natural disaster.

Then, just as swift and with equal predictability, those wedded to the Great Satan view of the US begin to carp, drawing on a potent mixture of cynicism and conspiracy theories to criticise the last remaining superpower. When the US keeps doing so much of the heavy lifting to alleviate suffering, you’d figure that the anti-Americans might eventually revise their view of the US. But they never do. And coming under constant attack even when helping others, you’d figure that Americans would eventually draw the curtains on world crises. But they haven’t. At least not yet.

The article continues HERE.