[Brian Allen]

Brilliant!

And, a couple of other aspects of being American that the rest of the world's poor peons -- including those poor sad subjects of all of the Brussells-based Neo-Soviet's squalidly-socialist satellite states -- do not get, is that Beloved FRaternal Republic is Founded and Stands upon the God-given Rock of Individual Liberty -- and FRom the Body of Law that flows from the Judeo-Christian Tradition, Tenets and Biblical Law which guided the hands of the Authors of Our Republic's Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights -- and that those same Judeo-Christian Traditions, Tenets and Biblical Laws guide the evey-day-to-day lives of by far the vast majority of US today.

We love one another, it is true -- and we love Our Beloved FRaternal Republic and the Liberty it, alone among nations, guarantees every American.

But we love God before all -- and before everything -- and thank Him first for our every advantage.

One other point, though, that the rest of the world, except the Australians and New Zealanders and Israelis, do not get, is that we Americans and Our Beloved FRaternal Republic do not simply Vanguard Judeo-Christian ["Human" that is] Civilization -- we represent its only remaining foothold upon the Earth.

Where goes Our Nation -- goes Mankind!

[mrustow]

3. They see us as wounded, weakened, and thus want either to stomp us to death, or indirectly to help other nations stomp us to death.

[mrustow]

See also:

Our Enemy is in the Sand

[Brian Allen]

Ping.

British-born John Derbyshire is my very favorite [Other] foreign-born American.

Shift your Brit-centric perspective 90 degrees or so for the few minutes it takes to read this piece -- and perhaps you will understatnd why?

[TheFilter]

"we can hardly imagine the situation in Britain, where the BBC — far the most important source of news and comment for most people — is staffed entirely by members of the hard-Left lumpen-intelligentsia"

Not all of 'em.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2868135.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2775105.stm

[Southack]

I'm not even saying that the author has a point, but in the event that two cultures don't understand each other, the burden is on the militarily *weaker* culture to not provoke the mightier one.

[Fzob]

bump for later

[aquila48]

The narrowness of viewpoint expressed in their media. Centuries of state-sanctioned priesthoods and despotic bureaucracy have left other nations with a deferential attitude to bookish pontificators that America just does not know. As much as we complain of the leftist bias in our media, we can hardly imagine the situation in Britain, where the BBC — far the most important source of news and comment for most people — is staffed entirely by members of the hard-Left lumpen-intelligentsia, people who, to my certain knowledge (I am friends with some of them) were admirers of the Soviet Union down to the hour of its collapse. In France and Germany things are even worse. There is essentially no conservative movement in these countries, nor in any country but the U.S. There are no Second Amendment lobbies, no Club for Growth, no anti-abortion crusaders, no Christian Coalition, no Rush Limbaugh, no Sean Hannity. (I do not say these things don't exist in Britain, France, or Germany. I do say that they have no political influence whatsoever.) Because of the lack of alternative voices, the effect of political correctness on these countries has been far more dire than in the U.S. In England last November, a journalist was locked up in jail for telling a pro-fox-hunting rally that country people should have the same rights as black people, Muslims, and homosexuals. Unrestrained by any constitutional protection for free speech, the ruling elites in these countries are wielding p.c. as a club to smash all dissent from approved state doctrines, all resistance to state schemes of social engineering. No voices are heard in Europe now but the voices of the Leftist clerisy who control all the media outlets. These people are all anti-American. (In France and Italy, they are not infrequently actual Communist-party members — yes, Communism is alive and well in Europe.) It is not surprising that the ordinary people of these countries, bathed as they are in this flood of lies from morning till night, are suspicious of us. And this is only to speak of nations that have some decently long tradition of consensual democracy. Russia? China? Turkey? Fugeddaboutit.

To me this should have been at the top of the list. With the media so controlled by the left, the left is in complete control of the masses. This is going to be an incredibly tough and long fight. We thought we had vanquished communism, but it's alive and well - they've come through the back door!! And they have a strong foothold even here in the US.

WILL WE HAVE THE CONFIDENCE AND STAMINA TO FIGHT BACK??