I found this very interesting article on a Windows Live Space Blog.  It doesn’t say who the owner of the blog is, but I’m going to link to it anyway.  Anyhow, it is an intriguing article, so take a minute and read it.  What say you?

Written by an Australian Dentist

To Kill an American :

You probably missed it in the rush
of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in
Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone
who killed an American, any American.

So
an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let
everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found
one. (Good one, mate!!!)

An
American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish,
Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican,
African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian,
or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An
American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho,
Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native
Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim.

In
fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only
difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them
chooses.

An
American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will
answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming
to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

The
root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to
the pursuit of happiness.

An
American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other
nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in
return.

When
Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans
came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their
country!

As
of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other
nation to the poor in Afghanistan. Americans welcome the best of
everything…the best products, the best books, the best music, the
best food, the best services. But they also welcome the least.

The
national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired
and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the
homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built
America.

Some
of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11,
2001 earning a better life for their families. It’s been told that the
World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries,
cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted
the terrorists.

So
you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General
Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in
the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because
Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are
the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to
that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

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