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January 7, 2005
On " The Disenchanted American" - Is America growing world-weary?
Topics:This article by Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online asks if America is growing world-weary. In his article he speaks of the growing barbarism outside our shores, and the U.S. being the only sheriff in sight while asking us to imagine a world in which there was no United States during the last 15 years.
(...) Iraq, Iran, and Libya would now have nukes. Afghanistan would remain a seventh-century Islamic terrorist haven sending out the minions of Zarqawi and Bin Laden worldwide. The lieutenants of Noriega, Milosevic, Mullah Omar, Saddam, and Moammar Khaddafi would no doubt be adjudicating human rights at the United Nations. The Ortega Brothers and Fidel Castro, not democracy, would be the exemplars of Latin America. Bosnia and Kosovo would be national graveyards like Pol Pot's Cambodia. Add in Kurdistan as well -- the periodic laboratory for Saddam's latest varieties of gas. Saddam himself, of course, would have statues throughout the Gulf attesting to his control of half the world's oil reservoirs. Europeans would be in two-day mourning that their arms sales to Arab monstrocracies ensured a second holocaust. North Korea would be shooting missiles over Tokyo from its new bases around Seoul and Pusan. For their own survival, Germany, Taiwan, and Japan would all now be nuclear. Americans know all that -- and yet they grasp that their own vigilance and military sacrifices have earned them spite rather than gratitude. And they are ever so slowly learning not much to care anymore.
I believe Hanson's article to be an important and informative read. Thanks to Charles at LittleGreenFootballs for his post that provided the tip.
Posted by Hyscience at January 7, 2005 9:12 PM
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