While watching Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore, I started questioning whether or not this was true. I have to admit I was very upset by the film in general, and after some research I asked myself, Should I feel proud to be American? Is it true that others consider us brutal? I couldn't believe my eyes when I found articles that show the brutality inflicted to others in the Middle East. Then I thought, maybe Michael Moore in his film is letting us know everything the government has been hiding from us. I can go on and on asking myself , is it true or not? Instead I rather accept that this film has some truth to it. I am sure the crying of the Iraqi woman to Allah was real, when she saw all the pain that US forces has caused her and her family. In articles I found I read that US forces had carried our abuse and torture. I know we (as Americans) have suffered enough, many of us have lost family in 9/11 and even have family members fighting in Iraq, but because of all this pain we must be sensible to think that torture is not going to bring back what we've lost, the pain is not going to go away, what this war is creating is hate and more pain that anything.
The website "Proud to be an American", explains what a true American is and it is those acts explain there that makes us feel proud and not inflicting pain. Any act of torture should be punish, and those responsible should be held accountable for those shameful acts. There is no reason to think we are allow to injure others because we are in war or because they have harmed us. We should all feel proud to be an American and never have to question it.
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You should be proud of being American. The United States have always helped a lot some countries of the world that were experiencing some problems.
Even though I totally disagree with the invasion of Iraq, I think that you should still be proud of a country that helps so many other countries in a good way.
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