We can be proud of the United Sates for endless reasons, starting with its first beginning. But the worst crime of the Americas is the slaughter and abuse of First Americans and captured Africans, all intended for the slave trade. But if it hadn't been for our nation's individual fair founders–such as John Adams didn't believe in human bondage–the same abuse would still be rampant with prejudice, greed and control that is still prevalent but now kept down to a roar.
Vast arsenals of nuclear weaponry manufactured and stored does not bring security for anyone. As I repeat, Virgil born in 70 BCE wrote "There is no security in war."
Only when all nations stand on the same level ground will there be peace. International peace will become reality when Earth is nuclear war-free.
World Enlightened News, W.E.N.
Helene Smith author of Songbird Angels For International Peace, world-wide musicians chanting for a change from a war policy to a peace policy. The latter does not cost trillions of dollars nor takes lives of young people sacrificed on the battlefield alter of burnt offerings to the gods