America is exceptional, despite what our current president may think.
Asked whether America was an exceptional country, Mr. Obama famously replied that every country is exceptional. North Korea is exceptional? Castro's Cuba is fine? Zimbabwe is great? Really?
Obama's response accords with the left's theory of universalism, whereby one's general allegiance to mankind outweighs that to any particular nation, including one's own.......
.......From a practical perspective, universalism is a dead end -- quite literally -- because there are always powerful adversaries who do not share one's soft-hearted faith in universal brotherhood. The left's goals of unilateral disarmament and global equality play right into the hands of these powerful adversaries. Only a nation that is incredibly naïve or blatantly suicidal would lower its guard in the presence of rising nation-states like China and fanatical terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda.
There is a second difficulty. Even if a mechanism could be devised to assure universal cooperation -- an absurd hope -- one has to ask whether egalitarianism would be desirable......
....Adherents of cosmopolitanism consider themselves citizens of the world, and Obama is a perfect example of this type. With an ethos based on nothing more than relativism and pragmatism, they scorn all particular traditions. They are not guided by longstanding assumptions and alliances, nor do they embrace any single conception of human nature or any definite idea of culture.
What they do embrace, and this adamantly,is the rejection of moral and cultural distinctions that would lead one to believe that a particular set of values is superior to any other........
.....what is most galling to the left is the sheer excellence of Anglo-American civilization and especially America -- not just its remarkable success in material terms, but its achievement of an extraordinary degree of liberty and general welfare.
That success is hardly accidental...................
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