After nearly forty years of constantly denouncing just about every element of our own culture as being racist, sexist, far right wing, christian (also right wing), and using those descriptions to press forward their agenda, the PC crowd has defined the USA in particular and the West in general as "the enemy".
Despite the obvious facts on the ground in the middle east it is still virtually impossible to state in public that the "Palestinians" are an intentionally created cult of terrorists and bigots. "We" find it far easier to put the blame on those European Jews who resettled (according to previous promises and immediate history) between Jordan and Egypt - largely because they are more "like us".
Theology aside, they learned from many of the same dead white guys who gave us our core beliefs - the same ones being attacked under the PC mantle.
Sadly, and encouraged by the very icons of political correctness (except in their personal lives), some of our recent actions have highlighted that definition with bombs and with propaganda such as Americans have rarely experienced.
I fear than a large number of otherwise middle of the road (wherever that may be) Americans have accepted enough of this self-damnation so as to be passive toward our enemies as well as to encroaching government controls.
What can we expect from a generation or two generations raised on self doubt, hatred of those who "oppress" others because of gender, ethnicity (no, "race" has become accepted again), or their "orientation"?
Americans seem to enjoy feelings of guilt - guilt for not being invaded in WW2, tormenting innocent agrarian reformers in Vietnam, eating well, or owning two cars...
Do we believe so strongly in that guilt that we might not have the will to defend such a place?
Have enough Americans been convinced that we no longer deserve our special role?
Do great nations or empires fall from within or from without?
Maybe after more coffee........