I know many people that still think that way about Germans and Japanese. It is a generational thing. Give us 10 years and the new generation of Americans will be happy as pigs in a poke to go to Wal-Mart and buy their Al-Quida cars. When people are making and saving money they throw out the window incidental things like long term security of nation and the outmoded concept of patriotism.
If those in USA leadership (both Parties) have no concept of Patriotism, and they don’t because both are beating the drum for for more free trade, how do they expect an example to be set.
They may fool me once on free trade but only once. It has never worked for the nation, although it made individual CEOs and banksters quite wealthy.
The media has purposely dumbed down Americans so that the politicians can have their way with us.
The problem in the USA is that we lost many millions of good paying jobs over 40 years that paid taxes, and replaced them with low paying jobs that pay no or little income taxes, and that is the crux of our indebtedness. If a family loses their income they need to go live in a tent and forget all the luxuries or they will go into debt. Same with a nation.
It is not buying an alqueda car ten years from now that is the problem. It is buying the foreign oil right now that funds the people who support the terrorists that are killing our troops today. That is the real problem.