This country had existed for almost 190 years before it got the first President who invited us to doubt its greatness. That was Mr. Carter, who will also be remembered as the man who ushered in the Islamic terrorist regime that still rules Iran today.
Now we have a President who goes much farther than Carter did. He doesn't just invite us to doubt the United States--he says flat out he doesn't think we're anything special. And yet he represents this country to the world. He's also sworn to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution.
The repeated apologies for America's supposed arrogance, the bows to foreign leaders, the appeasement of Iran, and the sympathy for captured jihadists all show the same thing. Mr. Obama feels more sympathy for angry radicals in other countries than he does for the United States, as we've always known it.
Like his Communist friends, Mr. Obama believes this country's history (as far as he understands it) is as notable for slavery, capitalist exploitation, and imperialist warmongering as for any great achievements. And so, whatever pride we feel in America should be offset by shame for its sins. If this country doesn't actually deserve to be dismantled, we should at least take it down a notch or two.
And accordingly, this President's foreign policy is designed to do just that. The U.S. is to be just one more spoke on the wheel, equal to all the others, and rolling along in harmony with them. Or so the pipe dream goes. We've now taught enough Americans to loathe their own country to make a policy like this possible, for the first time in our history. If not an admission of defeat, it's an indication of our decline.
The U.S. has always been an exceptional country--the "last, best hope of man on Earth." It's only the fact America had enormous power, and the will to use it if necessary, that prevented a third world war for all those decades after the second one ended in 1945. The world lives by the law of the jungle, and believing that's terribly wrong, or sincerely wishing for world peace, doesn't make it one bit less true.
A weaker America that's pulled in its horns won't make the world safer. It will make it far more chaotic and dangerous. When we cause more or less friendly countries to doubt our judgment and our resolve, we are practically inviting them to cut the best deals they can with our adversaries and even with our outright enemies. Or, maybe even worse, to arm themselves. Weakness toward North Korea and Iran makes Japan and South Korea and Saudi Arabia think about having the bomb, too--and they can get it.
