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Feeling down about the way the rest of the world views us? Don't. It's their problem.
Good Victor David Hanson as usual
Pride and Envy are what make this war go 'round.
What are we to do? In fact, very little can be done. Perhaps all we can hope for is to understand rather than ameliorate these pathologies, and whenever possible combine tough love with magnanimity. We need to draw as many troops out of Europe as fast as we can within parameters of military sobriety. Only that way will so-called allies ever shoulder their own defense burdens and thereby regain a sense of national accomplishment. Until then we must respond twofold to every verbal assault on us, even as we praise every European minesweeper, canteen, or police contingent that is now in Afghanistan and Iraq ? all the while expecting not much more than a grunt or two of appreciation that we are leading the way.
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