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How would you know what we need?
Why, you haven't yet even noticed that the United States of America has stood astride the world these past 200+ years, not 15 and has, during those past 200 years, been -- and remains -- the greatest Nation to have ever existed.
You haven't noticed that for more than one hundred and fifty years -- not 15 -- America has both vaguarded and guarded Judeo-Christian/Western ["Human," that is] Civilization -- and has for almost one hundred years been the only Nation on the planet capable of projecting, to any place on Earth, the kind of power that has kept the world safe from barbarism -- and that there is not a single FRee Man on this planet who does not owe his FReedom to the willing sacrifice of American Blood and Treasure!
You also have not noticed that our Christian Nation is unique in Human History as the only one ever to have been Founded in and to stand upon the Principle of Individual Liberty and to have never gained an inch of any other people's or state's land or territory by way of aggression.
Or that the United States of America is about as "similar" to the Nineteenth Century once-great Britain to which you compare it [And which we had in any case defeated during the American War of Independence] as it is to -- say 2005 North Korea and/or Burma/myanmar.
And as for being attractive to and a magnet for emigrants/immigrants? It worked for this bright, intelligent and patriotic, born-a-"british-subject," hyphenated American.*
Our beloved FRaternal Republic surely attracted me!
[*I'm an AMERICAN-American!]
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I would know because last time I checked I scored 5 more than you on the modern test, IMHO you lack objectivity.
Secondly Judeo-Christian values and whatever else comes with it is not on my priority list. I think that a great achievement of Christainity is that it has been able to seperate church from state, which Islam has been unable to do and hence threatens the world order.
There is no doubt US is a strong nation, but the moot question is that should one take it for granted or should one strive to make it stronger?