Oh, how clever.
In our rush to be fair to everyone we've deliberately repudiated the greatness of this country and our history, and for decades have taught that nothing matters so much as never taking sides, because we don't know better... we're just dumb Americans.
While I have hope for a reversal of some of this, Hugh Hewitt has a column titled "The Collapse of Judgment" that illustrates the situation nicely.
He says, "We are, it seems, in danger of losing any sense of priority, of scale, of genuine importance."
"If you could save the victims of one of the following four events, which group would you save?
1. The victims of Fidel Castro's "revolution?"
2. The victims of Hezbollah's ambushes, rockets and missiles over the past three weeks?
3. The victims of the Seattle attack on the Jewish federation?
4. The victims of Mel Gibson's repulsive outburst of anti-Semitic venom?
If all human life is valued equally, you'd have to save Castro's millions of victims, the Hezbollah's thousands, then the one dead and many injured in Seattle, and then Gibson's offended. As an extraordinary week draws to a close, though, you wouldn't have any sense of scale or importance if you had been watching American media or reading American commentary."
Hope you have a chance to read it.
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