Posted on 06/02/2004 12:25:49 AM PDT by kattracks
More shocking is the strain of anti-Americanism here at home. Leftist newspapers and academics deconstruct America for not being a utopia. They vent the frustrations and problems of modern times at America. They do not hold other countries to this level of scrutiny. Nor do they compare the United States to other countries. They merely turn their scrutiny inward, as if they were guilty and ashamed for their own affluence. I suppose it is a measure of how good things are in America that critics choose to focus on modern problems. It is a safe bet that the citizens of Zimbabwe are more worried about whether their children will eat, than on contemplating their own existential angst.Anyway, this self-loathing and empathy for our attackers is worse than decadent, it is dangerous insofar as it reinforces to the radicals that attacking the United States is the best way to win concessions. To which I would add, we should not feel guilty for being the world's only superpower. We should not feel guilty for standing up for ourselves. We should not feel guilty for rooting out groups of people who sit around and plot ways to murder as many Americans as possible. Nor should we feel guilty for having a president who is willing to do something about it all.
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Amen
Needs a bump. Williams nailed it.
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