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Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression. Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none -- not one regime -- has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
The strength of the Solidarity movement in Poland demonstrates the truth told in an underground joke in the Soviet Union. It is that the Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted, because everyone would join the opposition party
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In the Communist world as well, man’s instinctive desire for freedom and self-determination surfaces again and again. To be sure, there are grim reminders of how brutally the police state attempts to snuff out this quest for self-rule -- 1953 in East Germany, 1956 in Hungary, 1968 in Czechoslovakia, 1981 in Poland. But the struggle continues in Poland. And we know that there are even those who strive and suffer for freedom within the confines of the Soviet Union itself. How we conduct ourselves here in the Western democracies will determine whether this trend continues. No, democracy is not a fragile flower. Still it needs cultivating. If the rest of this century is to witness the gradual growth of freedom and democratic ideals, we must take actions to assist the campaign for democracy.
President Ronald Reagan
Promoting Democracy and Peace
Speech to the British Parliament, June 8, 1982

Too bad we are losing such a precious ally as USA. Since the creation of America, there were Polish people, soldiers mostly, that decided to devote their lives to creating American state. General Pułaski, father of American cavalry, who died in the battle of Savannah, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Stanisław, Ulam and many others.
We received help when we needed it, in Woodrow Wilsons "14 Points", point number 13 established Poland after 124 years of partitions. Americans were a crucial ally in WWII (there is even one President who claims his uncle freed prisoners from Auschwitz, he was probably the only black person in Red Army...)
In dark years of communism we got support from USA. Not from European-commie-supporting-afraid-of-Moscow-pussies.
Polish and American troops fight hand in hand in WoT, the strongest support of WoT came from Eastern Europe, yes, yes those ex-Communist (anti-Communist) countries.
I guess we will have to wait three years before Polish-American turn normal.