Thanks, Anthony, vb, others.
I don’t buy the red herring about America’s need to ‘repair’ its reputation, no matter how many times it’s repeated by Kirchick and other members of our insecure nomenklatura — many of whom seem to think it’s more important to be well liked than to do the right thing.
Why? Because the only picture of America most people in this world will ever see is presented in words and images selected by newspaper editors, television producers and propagandists. Major media outlets throughout the world present a one-note narrative of ceaseless American wickedness, focusing exclusively and hysterically on this nation’s shortcomings, some real but many imagined, while ignoring almost completely this country’s unique burdens, responsibilities and contributions. Then the crude, ginned up bigotry of their audiences is offered — sometimes by political opportunists here at home — as ‘proof’ of American waywardness.
What a shakedown. Unfortunately, our so-called leadership classes can no longer tell when they’re being snookered.
Show trials and ‘struggle sessions’ end with confession and contrition. We’re in the first stage now and headed for the second. The volume of vitriol hurled at this country, day in and day out, will diminish when we elect leaders more easily seduced by manipulative European diplomats and UN con artists, more easily gamed by third world charlatans and grifters posing as champions of the people, and more easily cowed by gangsters posing as statesmen in places like Beijing and Caracas.
