Taked for granted

            
             Ever since this country has been established, it has been prospering, growing, and has become one of the most powerful countries in the world. Most people in America have what they want, ranging from cars to homes and from cd's to the most extravagant furniture. Many people live comfortably. Excluding the unemployed, homeless, and the lower class that is on welfare or struggling to get by, this country's people have it pretty well. Although most of them take what they have for granted. They don't realize how lucky they are to stay warm during the winter, keep cool during the summer, have a roof over their heads, and be able to do what they want. Also American people are fake patriots, they turn patriotic in times of misfortune, such as September 11, or the war. .
             In other countries American people are viewed as, ignorant, stuck up, not caring, selfish, lazy and fake. American people have been known to be very ignorant and naive. They consume more than half of the worlds resources and when a regular person is asked about that their reply is usually "hey why not if we can". American people have also been known to be very aggressive, people think that all they want to do is fight as soon as something small happens. This may be true but sometimes, the fighting must happen or does it? What about in the Iraq case, most people thought they were going after weapons but where are they? Did they vanish, because no one found them? Although most other wars the fighting had to happen, many of the casualties could have been limited, if the country could have been smarter. In the case of the .
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             Vietnam conflict, why did 58,000 soldiers had to die in over ten years? Many of them died because the Country refused to declare war. So the soldiers before engaging in a fight had to get permission from many people so they could fight, which in many cases injured or killed many soldiers by the time they got permission.