Stereotyping Americans....

This morning in class, towards the end of class we were talking about a poem,"Blood", the reaction of of one of my classmates caught my attention. In this class we where talking about stereotypes and what effect they have had on people. When my classmate started to elaborate on the poem, it seemed to me he was the one doing the stereotypting, stereotyping Americans. Many believe that America tends to be a violent country, and the people living in it are the same way. But if you look back into our history, when we go to war it was nessesary to proctect our way of life, to keep our freedoms. In WWI we started out neutral until we were attacked by Germans. WW2, we where attacked by Japanese. Veitnam, North Korea crossed the line that was made to keep peace and threatened innocent people. Gulf War, we warned Hussien not to attack Kuwait, we attepted to keep peace. War on Terrorism, our country was attacked and thousands of innocent Amercian citizens lives were lost. So, if you think that it was not nessicary to protect the Amercian people and our allies, i perosnally think you are being ignorrant. To keep our freedom that we fought for so long ago, we must protect what ours and our people. I agree that some things should have been done different, but was totally nesseasay in the first place. So to stereotype Americans and violent, and not being able to see outside our own borders, is crazy. It seems to me that the ones attacking us have the problem and are violent. When we found Hussein, how many lives to you think we saved??? If he was not stopped he was going to keep on killing millions of innocent people in other countrys. You may not agree with what I have to say, but this blog has nothing but facts, its just depends on you how you decide to intrepret it.