[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

So it is also with the US. We are bound with Israel, as bound as twins. We share a foundational conviction that we exist as nations dedicated to God. As we each engender cultural banality our conviction that God is the center of our nations' lives is diminished.
We permit the camel's nose to penetrate the tent of our privacy. But the camel is a lumbering, destructive, dumb and disastrous force of nature that will mess our tent and destroy our lives.
There is no vision on either side of the pond sufficient to regain our footing. We are drifting in a long twilight with only darkness ahead.

[Tainan]

Bravo.

[GOPJ]

Israel's conservatives are overrun with the princes and princesses, the children and grandchildren of great men and women who are themselves diffident or destructive, who have no vision, but have grown up expecting to have political power handed to them.

Elites of all countries make the same mistake. They tilt the field to the advantage of those they love - denying the most qualified the ability to compete fairly. In the short run it makes for better family holidays - in the long run it destroys a nation.

Binding the feet of children not born to elites causes countries to lose life's race.