"God! MORE!"
[America turns to side, looks towards floor, her handkerchief fisted against her nose. She lets her torch droop to ground]
"Sometimes I don't know, I just don't know if I can take it any more ... [America sobs jerkily into her handkerchief, speaking to herself] "We try to help them and they try to kill us!"
[America dissolves into subs, closing her eyes and mopping them with handkerchief, head down]
[Barely audible] "It's like they hate Freedom, just hate Freedom itself. . . "
Then
[America puts her hands before her face, talking to them like mirror] "Is it worth it? Is it worth it?? Should I stop being Good all the time? Being good no matter how much it costs me??"
[Fade to black] . . . or just to another endlessly-broadcast singing of 'Amazing Grace' on this oh-so-devastating Tenth Anniversary.
That's it.
That's the script, that's the story they want you to buy.
And anybody who'd tell you that is nothing but you got it a Crybaby F*ck.
Picture in the dictionary right there under Cee R Why.
But of course as the dictionary entry explains Â- 'Crybaby f*ck' is always followed by 'One who raises to steel oneself'.
Yes - from out of nowhere, from the unspeakably-tragic human ashes - America comes back.
America rises. America launches a Shock-and-Awe invasion.
And then another . . .
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