Of course! It is only an 'idea' that makes us truly American in the first place!
What the Eurosocialists, including the NYT apart from Brooks and Friedman, fear is precisely the emergence of an American Civilization that will greatly influence many others in the world. They prefer to ally with Islamic fascism rather than admit that there even is an American civilization based on the ideas which we borrowed from the liberty thinkers of England and a few other places in order to break from those in Europe who always sought to crush those ideas.