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Posted on 02/02/2007 6:17:49 AM PST by Valin
WASHINGTON -- My friend, the actor and writer Ben Stein, is forever putting me to shame, writing eloquent laudations to the wonder of America while I am given to heaving up diatribes against the world's pests and scoundrels. Ben rhapsodizes about this great country, its underappreciated citizenry, the brave and effective soldiers of its volunteer military, Cadillacs. And what is my response? I heave spitballs -- all are, I believe, on target; but surely it is not right to leave the patriotic ratiocinating to Ben.
Whenever he begins waving the flag and whistling "The Star-Spangled Banner," he is the soul of wisdom. America is almost everything our enemies deny it to be. As Ben has sung, America is generous, free, democratic, hard-working, tolerant, and cheerful. It is the greatest multiracial nation on earth. For years it has been multi-ethnic, the Melting Pot, as they say. But today it is multiracial, having overcome slavery that endured far too long in a country whose Founding Fathers propounded freedom for all mankind while strangely maintaining servitude for almost all blacks who were shipped over here. Well, even the noblest of the species Homo sapiens have blind spots and related weaknesses. I think today the majority of Americans has made up for the bigotry of earlier Americans, and the achievements of blacks in America today -- in entertainment, commerce, medicine, education, the sciences -- make it clear that racism was the evil of ignorance, the ignorance of the bigot.
There is a tremendous energy about this country that I never fail to notice upon returning to our shores from faraway. Europe is a lovely place to visit, but it is a drowsy place by comparison to America.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Today the political parasites who wish to attain high office by latching on to some presumed misery in our societyNot just today. Add in Treason as Foreign Policy and you've got the history of the Democrats since the early 70s.
I wish Ben Stein would take Andy Rooney's place on "60 Minutes". But then the producers of "60 Minutes" probably would not let him do his own stuff...
was really disappointing.
I love Ben Stein. For so many years, I just knew him just as "Bueller...Bueller...Bueller...". But then I read some of his work, and he is just a joy to read.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/benstein.asp
Just one of his many brilliant pieces.
Yes it was! But Ben Stein is (one of) the reasons I get the American Spectator, and Ben Stein's Diary is the 1st thing I read.
"Never is he more eloquent in praising the volunteer troops who keep us free and secure. Today there are myriads of out-at-the-elbow Hitlers intent on blowing up our cities and spreading pandemics. The American military under civilian control fights on foreign soil far away to insure that the aspiring Adolfs fail...and get what they deserve. Despite the defeatist humors in our media, these soldiers and Marines dispatch the enemy with a professionalism of the highest order. They are constantly readjusting their tactics to new conditions. They are deadly but they are for the most part decent, conforming to the international rules of warfare unlike their enemies who hide in mosques, use women and children for shields, and blow up civilians."
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I couldn't agree more!
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