America
… Really … What everyone???
This
morning as I read the news I saw a story about President Barack Obama
asking congress to vote to authorize the war against the
self-described Islamic State Nothing wrong there but then I read,
“For
over a year, I have ordered our military to take thousands of air
strikes against ISIL targets. I think it’s time for Congress to
vote to demonstrate that the American people are united, and
committed, to this fight”
Can
you spot what's wrong with that statement? Unless you live in South
America you could be forgiven for not realising the error that the
President of the USA made. He has made the assumption that only
people from the USA are American!
Just
who is he speaking for when he said “The American people
are united, and committed, to this fight” America is in fact a
continent comprising of 55 country's or dependant territory's! All
together they make the American people.
Personally
I think every American country should contact the president to tell
him to speak for himself, perhaps if he was told 54 times that the
USA is not America every time he made that mistake it might start to
sink in … slowly.
Having
said the above, citizens of the United States of America are
Americans because they live on the American Continent, but when
their leader says he speaks for Americans it just makes him sound
dumb/stupid and by extension the people of the United States of
America.
For
an educated man and the leader of a country I would have hoped for
better in a public statement.
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