Yes, I agree. We have earned our liberty by the bloody quart, too. Those in other lands who wait around for leaders to round them up and ship them off to the gulags for so much as thinking contrary thoughts resent and fear the freemen from America.
I'm thinking about all the equivocation I'm hearing from India these days. Shouldn't they be shoulder to shoulder with us, standing up for freedom-loving human beings, their fellow democratic citizens from another land? But NO. I wonder if they didn't have to fight as hard to free themselves from the Brits as we did, and that explains why they take it all for granted. I'm not saying they didn't have to suffer. I'm saying they didn't overthrow British rule at the zenith of Britannia's dominance of her colonies like we did.
Our origins have put a lot of the fight in our eyes.