Couldn't have said it better...but I'll add to it.

"We are six percent or less of the world's population, yet we give almost half. We are a very small number of people, relatively speaking, and we carry the weight of a dozen countries. Secondly, we maintain a military structure that keeps the peace of the world.....Who is in the Indian Ocean with the aircraft carriers, helicopters, skilled personal? No one has the infrastructure in the world, we spend almost half a trillion dollars a year on our military structure, which is essentially the fire department of the planet and it is always at the disposal of people hit in a national disaster.....Incidentally on food aid, we give 60% of all the food aid in the world. It is simply irresponsible to talk about the U.S. as anything other than the most generous nation on the planet."



This quote from Charles Krauthammer, a Fox News commentator and columnist really paints a big picture of who we are and how we handle a natural disaster half a world away. I'll add that by and large, we are a Christian nation. As such, we never considered the race, creed, color, national origin, sex, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or even the opinion those people had of the United States before this nation threw its collective back into helping those affected by the tsunami, we just did the(yeah,uh huh...Christian)right thing. I would like to think that somehow, the rest of the world would have a gentler, kinder opinion of America when this is done. I'm not holding my breath.

As long as we have Islamic extremists and a entire religion that tolerates any level of extremism as long as "allah" is invoked, we'll be hated. As long as liberals continue to equate theological absolutes with cultural relativism and substitute moral equivalency for morality, we'll be hated. How bankrupt theologically is a religion that holds Islamic terrorists, absolutely the worst of the worst, above us so-called "infidels"? If every good and faithful Muslim turned on these jackals like they know they should, terrorists would disappear tomorrow.