America The Beautiful Dinesh D'souza Analysis

The Article America the Beautiful: What We’re Fighting for by Dinesh D’Souza focuses mainly on how The United States is great for the work it is doing in other countries. While other article by blank discusses why America is wrong for doing this kind of work. Both authors discuss The United States involvement in other countries, specifically the Middle East and the after effects. D’Souza is straightforward in saying that “The United States should demand terrorist networks be broken up and if they do not we will get rid of their governments.” (744) This is problematic though because not only do Americans play the victim when it comes to terrorism, but as a country that is driven by irradiating terrorism we cause a lot of it. If the bombings that are done to other countries by our military were done to us it would be called terrorism. Many people in the United States do not see it this way though, they think that if America does something it is always correct. An example of this would be when the United States took down an Iranian civilian jet killing two-hundred and ninety people and Bush Sr. was quoted saying “I will never apologize for the United States. I do not care what
It will cease to matter. Even now it does not matter much. The only reason it makes the news is by killing people.” (772). It seems that there is not much thought about the actual people in these countries and the country is being looked at like one big stereotype. It’s no wonder that we are a target through invading other countries because we think we are right and just assuming the people in those countries all have the same intentions. If we were just to step back and focus on our own issues going on in our country there would be an adjustment period, but it is likely that we could gain back some