Fly Him to the White House
Besides being 20 years old and uniform-handsome, he brings a trove of glistening credentials to any table where you want to meet.
When the White House learns of his case and his red-white-and-blue commitment and personality, they should airlift him to Washington, overnight, and start promoting a positive face of the American troops for a refreshing change.
Clear About His Beliefs
Andrew Smith was raised in a third-generation household that teaches religious faith and American patriotism as primary values.
Andrew Smith is My Country Tis of Thee.
When he sings America the Beautiful, he is actually shouting out to you, “This I believe.”
He is not embarrassed.
Idol Worshipping
Instead of staging a vote every week on Fox Television, they should just go ahead and crown Andrew Smith the ultimate American Idol.
Andrew Smith believes what God taught, what his parents taught and what Abraham Lincoln taught, in that order.
He is proud to be a patriot, proud to serve his country, proud to help the Iraqi people gain something resembling the kind of liberties his fellow Americans enjoy.
Andrew Smith Was the Target
Any time in the past 20 years when a President of the United States has opened an address by saying, “My fellow Americans,” he was talking to Andrew Smith.
If this kid ever strays from the moral path, it will take a herd of about 3,000 buffaloes to drag him away from the mainstream.
His mother Yvette, a detective in the Culver City Police Dept. until a few years ago, and his father instilled a value system midway between his heart and his mind that is so sturdy it would wink back at the strongest winds Hurricane Katrina could summon.
All-American? Feh
Andrew Smith runs far deeper as an all-American than those football- and basketball-playing college boys you read about.
He knows what is in the U.S. Constitution. Better, he believes it. He lives it.
Go into any community in America this spring and you can pick up a rumdum newspaper prominently promoting the same storyline.
It centers on a disappointed, angry, depressed Iraqi veteran who used to believe but now has joined the far left.
Anybody for a Putdown?
The veteran tells you Mr. Bush is the dunce of the decade. He says the war is the worst thing that has happened to America since the Democratic Party took mercy and voted not to obliterate all living Republicans.
Having been exposed to the charismatic soft-touches who charmingly run the Muslim Middle East, says the veteran, never again will he trust a lying American president.
Will He Get a Chance?
Meanwhile, Andrew Smith lies in a hospital in Iraq, in a hopefully safe zone. When he recovers, he would love to tell his side of the story.
Only his family has heard it so far.
