An American Is...

Jim Hake from "Spirit of America" sends us an email from Jordan with a message:

Greetings.

The message below - "To Kill an American" - has been circulating around
the Internet. I don't know if the report it refers to is true but I
don't think it matters. It makes points that are worth considering.

Since our organization is named Spirit of America, I often reflect on
what the spirit of America is. For me, the spirit of America is about
freedom, opportunity and generosity. It's the belief that things can
be better than they are - a better mousetrap, a better government, a
better world, a better way to grill a hot dog. And it's the personal
initiative to try to make things better.

While America and Americans certainly don't own those ideals, we are a
pretty good example of them.

Our job here at Spirit of America is to reflect and help perpetuate
those ideals. Put more simply: we do our work so that freedom
prevails. Our projects in Iraq and Afghanistan are our way of
supporting those struggling for freedom and our way of fighting back
against those who want freedom to fail.

I'm writing this from Jordan so I'm more appreciative of the USA than
usual (though Jordan is a very nice country).

Thank you for your support.

All the best,
Jim Hake and the Spirit of America team

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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 the following to let everyone know what
an American is... so they would know when they found one. (Good on ya,
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.

Read the rest hereposted here

Now it ends with the "Author Unknown" but the author of this powerful piece was not an Australian (sorry Jim). It's original author is Peter Ferrara an associate professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law. Fairfax, Virginia. It was originally published in the National Review on 25, September 2001.
But regardless of who the author is, this is a message that every terrorist should hear.