[maica]

... the folks who gave us Auschwitz and Communism and who now bankroll Iran and North Korea hardly have a claim to moral superiority. Americans like you died for their errors. They never died for ours. And they err again. Instead of learning to fight evil, they have only learned that fighting is evil.

Third, we Americans are relatively alone because from our founding we have believed that we have a mission to better the world. And for this we are hated. We are not hated for our power; we are hated for our values and our sense of chosenness -- just as the never powerful Jews have long been hated for their values and their chosenness.

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This is profound, and even describes much of the animosity of the dems toward pubs. They hate us for our values!

[Travis McGee]

I listen to Prager on the radio every day, he's opposite Rush. He always says that in a school, the person who stands up to the bully is never thanked, but is hated for "making trouble." The cowards all come to terms with the bullies, (give lunch money, look away as the weak are pushed around etc.) So when someone stands up to the bully and fights back, he shows the rest for the cowards they are, and they hate the brave person for this more than they ever hated the bully.