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.
The party ruling India is equivocating. I believe the main opposition party is more behind the U.S.
India has a big problem in that it has a significant Muslim population, some of which are in rebellion and much of which is on the verge of the same. They're also walking a knife edge with Pakistan, where they could fall into a nuclear abyss.
Their rulers are trying to hold everything together. I'm not sure they're ruling party is correct, but they believe that too strongly backing the U.S. could precipitate a worse civil war than there presently is. I'm not sure whether this is, at present, the right course for them. However, I strongly suspect that India will have stop equivocating before too long.
Interestingly, I've started to see the anti-Semites writing anti-Hindu hate that links Hinduism with Judaism and India with Israel. Likewise, I've been seeing the start of overtures between Hindu and Jewish groups. If more of the world starts seeing India as Hinjews that equivocation will have to stop all the sooner.
In any case, I'm willing to cut India a little slack right now. They could be the breakout country of the 21st century -- demographic predictions I've seen have India passing China in population shortly before 2050 -- and a major addition to the Anglosphere. But right now, it is a powder-keg over there.