AKA "The World At Large"

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“Despite his earlier criticism of Bush for terrorizing Afghans through Predator missile launches, now a President Obama has vastly increased the number of Predator drone attacks along the Afghan-Pakistani border. But note the silence of the hard Left that went after Bush on everything from waterboarding to Guantanamo. [...] What a strange time we live in.”
— Victor Davis Hanson, February 15th, 2010

Strange time? Well, yes, it is strange, albeit becoming more and more familiar. But much more unsettling, I think, is its growing perversity.

Having immigrated to America more than 60 years ago, I have witnessed American political process over the course of a dozen Presidential administrations, though, admittedly, with a degree of attentiveness roughly proportional to my age. Having been raised in a New York liberal environment, I became, generally speaking, a supporter of Democratic candidates and their largely liberal policies. This came to a rather abrupt halt after the infamy of 9/11.

After my initial shock and outrage receded a bit, to the point where I became able to consider how such a calamity could be perpetrated against what Lincoln called "the last best hope of humanity", I acquired a clarity of vision that had eluded me previously. America, warts and all, was indeed as Lincoln saw it; the rest of the world, with very few exceptions, was a great big cesspool of human detritus. And, in my mind, a simple political litmus test presented itself: when encountering conflicting views, whose proponents sat on opposite sides of the "political-party aisle", consider which viewpoint is better for America.

The rest of the world resents America's successes. Envy is the universal human condition. In my experience, the conservative point of view, whatever else it may have been, has always been pro-American. The liberal left, however, has always had a different calling, and in their view a higher one: the glorification of the world's lowest common denominator. And what of their collective litmus test? Well, it seems to go something like this: if the America-haters like it, it must be good.

This is why in virtually all head-to-head political controversy, conservative-minded Americans invariably choose what's best for the Nation. And the left? Why, they seek to cavort in that great big hot-tub of human excrement, also known as the world at large.

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