After reading a blog on the Arab-Israeli conflict, here is my response.

We, the citizenry of the "civilized" nations of the Earth, must realize at long last that world peace is indeed just a fairy tale, a luxurious dream for those who can affort to conjure it due to their artificial and temporary sense of safety. Nothing in this world is secure, and certainly nothing is free. Human rights such as we feel everyone ought to be entitled to have no logical place where the harsh reality of instability and conflict dwells. We sit back out of harm's way and complain about war crimes and the like, all the while being woefully incabable of understanding the hardship of a more harsh and real existence, in which nothing is secure, and nothing is guaranteed, and there is no entitlement granted without a (life and death) struggle. Woe to us, the lazy and stupid Americans. How will it be for us, if our own security fails? What if we find that Big Brother will not always be able to catch us when we fall?

I am not anti-American, or rather I am not opposed to what America ought to be. I am, however, ashamed of what we have let it become.