Happily, I do not count myself among the America-can-do-no-right crowd. I think such thinking was a social psychoses spread during the years of the Vietnam conflict, during a time when hallucinogenic drug use was rife in the land. In my view, America is the only truly self-critical country, and as a result it becomes commonplace, even fashionable, to condemn our country. America is the only country, for example, to have adopted policies to redress past wrongs committed by the country itself against members of minority groups, which it has done under the doctrine of affirmative action on behalf of African Americans and the reparations paid Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II. Yes, we have made mistakes, but our national performance is usually the best in the world. That is why people from all over the world are clamoring to come here. Think of all of the myriad accomplishments achieved by citizens of this great, creative, persevering country, the generous, compassionate, selfless country that RFK spoke of. Think of the life story of my father, who was born into an impoverished, Polish immigrant, coal mining family, who overcame such odds to help develop time travel. For me, the Stars and Stripes are not the symbol of the villainy our critics would unfairly attribute to us, but what George M. Cohan thought of it, the emblem of the land I love, the home of the free and the brave. -- Andrew D. Basiago https://youtube/watch?v=rxZvDTnlvKM
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:46:02 +0000
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