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While America Slept

By Andrew Roberts from the February 2010 issue

President Obama has no use for American exceptionalism or any special relationship with English-speaking peoples. Our February 2010 cover story.

"I do not think America is going to smash,” Winston Churchill told his American stockbroker in the depths of the Great Depression. “On the contrary I believe that they will quite soon begin to recover…. They carved it out of the prairie and the forests. They are going to have a strong national resurgence in the near future.”

Churchill’s own belief in the massive regenerative power of the United States was a constant in his life. He believed that given the will, Americans could achieve anything, because America was special. Yet today it is precisely this trust in the exceptionalism of America that is currently being called into question. History shows that nations that retain self-belief are indeed capable of astonishing feats, but those that suspect their time in the sun has passed cannot be saved, however rich they are or successful they have been.

Joyce Carol Oates, the award-winning novelist and Princeton professor, has written in the Atlantic: “How heartily sick the world has grown, in the first… years of the 21st century, of the American idea! Speak with any non-American, travel to any foreign country, and the consensus is: The American idea has become a cruel joke, a blustery and bellicose bodybuilder luridly bulked up on steroids, consequently low on natural testosterone, deranged and myopic, dangerous.” Such searing hatred of the American Idea from within American society—indeed from inside its cultural elite—is far more dangerous than what non-Americans feel. Of course, it couldn’t matter less what one writer feels if she does not represent the zeitgeist, but much more worrying was President Barack Obama’s reply in April to a question from a Financial Times reporter about whether he believed in American exceptionalism. He said: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

This is reminiscent of what the Dodo says in Alice in Wonderland: “Everyone has won and all must have prizes.” Yet that is simply not how international relations work. Greeks might indeed believe in their own exceptionalism, as might Belgians, Thais, or Finns for that matter, but they are not truly exceptional in the light of global current affairs. The West once again looks to America for leadership in a risky world, as we so often have in the past. Although the U.S. economy was in recession in the second quarter of 2009, she pulled out of it in the third quarter. My country, Britain, is still heavily mired in recession, but nothing so cheers our markets as much as knowing that you are finally out of it. American optimism, free market beliefs, and the can-do spirit will raise the Western world out of these doldrums—at least, they will if they are permitted to by your Congress and administration.

Historians will long debate how this recession started and who was responsible—the repeal of Glass-Steagall, Alan Greenspan’s interest rate policies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s lending strategy, Hank Paulson’s stewardship of the Treasury, all will be investigated by what Churchill once called “the pitiless inquest of History”—but however we got into it, only a resurgent America can get us out the other side. Yet with net private investment at 0.1 percent of U.S. GDP in the second quarter of 2009, and the U.S. deficit in 2009 standing at $1.4 trillion, the question the world is asking is: does America retain the belief in her exceptionalism, as in earlier times? All true friends of America must pray that the answer is yes, but if President Obama’s statement is anything to go by, it might be no.

SO IN A RISKY WORLD, where the hegemony of the English-speaking peoples—necessarily led by America—is increasingly being encroached upon by China, India, the European Union, and other powers, will America continue to provide the global leadership she always has, ever since she erupted onto the global stage a century ago? For it was in 1909 that Teddy Roosevelt visited Hampton Roads in Virginia to witness the return, after a 14-month, 45,000-mile circumnavigation of the world, of the Great White Fleet.

On board the presidential yacht Mayflower, Roosevelt watched seven miles of bright white ships— they were painted battle-gray soon after—as they fired a 21-gun salute in his honor. “We have definitely taken our place among the world great powers,” he said afterward, and he was right. The places that the Fleet had visited subtly underlined this important new fact of global geopolitics. From Chesapeake Bay, the 16 battleships had steamed to the Caribbean, past the new possessions of Cuba and Puerto Rico, then down the east coast and up the west coast of South America, protected by the Monroe Doctrine. Each country of the Latin American part of the world cruise at which the Fleet stopped—including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Mexico—could have harbored any illusions about what this massive new force portended.

After Mexico, the Fleet visited Hawaii (annexed by the U.S. in July 1898), New Zealand, and Australia, China, the (American-owned) Philippines, and then Japan. It then sailed across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, and then across the Atlantic. As a historian of America’s explosion onto the world scene recorded: “The cruise not only impressed the world with America’s newfound military strength, but excited the imagination of Americans as well. A million people had turned out in San Francisco to welcome the ships before their voyage across the Pacific.” There was no talk then of Greek exceptionalism being something that could be equated with American.

So where are we a century—indeed “the American century”—later? All too often in history, it has been the challenge of a small, seemingly insignificant power that has shown up the cracks in a great nation, which has in turn led to the loss of hegemony and the loss of greatness.

Serbia was tiny compared to the Austro- Hungarian Empire in 1914, yet its challenge eventually brought the Habsburgs to their knees. The French Empire dissolved after its defeat by Indochina at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Two years later, the once-mighty British Empire came to grief at Suez at the hands of puny Egypt. Afghanistan saw the beginning of the end of the Soviet Empire only 10 years after the Christmas 1979 invasion. America must not allow that same country—Afghanistan—to sound the death knell of American greatness, of American exceptionalism. She did not allow the disaster in Vietnam—where she lost 55,000 dead, well over 10 times more than in Iraq and Afghanistan put together—to deflect her.

For do not think that America’s great wealth will save her, if she loses the willpower to be exceptional. The possession of high per capita incomes does not save empires that no longer believe in themselves. History is littered with examples. The Romans were richer than the Huns, the Ottomans than the Mongols, the Aztecs than the Conquistadores, the Romanovs than the Bolsheviks, the British than the Indian National Congress, and so it goes on. It did none of these empires any good once they had lost their self-belief.

YET ALTHOUGH THE CHALLENGES FACED by the English-speaking peoples today are undeniably challenging, they are hardly unique. History might not repeat itself, but it does occasionally rhyme. The War on Terror would be instantly recognizable to the great leaders of the Englishspeaking peoples of the past. Teddy Roosevelt and Winston Churchill would have heard in the overarching ambitions of the jihadists for a caliphate stretching from Spain to Indonesia an echo of the Wilhelmine ambitions that led to the first great assault on the English-speaking peoples in 1914. Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt would also have seen in the viciousness and ruthlessness of the Taliban a shadow of the swastika that fell across Europe from 1933 to 1945. Harry Truman, JFK, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher would have no difficulty in spotting the similarities between al Qaeda’s creed of universality with the Marxist dialectical claim of the Soviet Communists to eventual world domination.

What we are witnessing today is nothing less than the fourth great assault on the primacy of the English-speaking peoples from aggressive totalitarian belief systems. The methods might be different each time, but the mindset hasn’t changed. Yet what I fear might have changed is a growing unwillingness of the elites of the English-speaking peoples to continue paying the price for their liberty. The sunset clause President Obama put on his latest surge at his West Point speech is the latest example of this unwillingness.

If the United States does not provide the kind of leadership in our risky world that was provided by Churchill, the two Roosevelts, Truman, JFK, Reagan, and Thatcher, and which one day—especially in the field of homeland security—will be accorded to President Bush and Tony Blair, then we must tremble for the future. For America to listen to the siren voices of isolationism and to withdraw into herself— perhaps citing Washington’s Farewell Address as she does so—would be utterly disastrous for our planet in the 21st century. Power abhors a vacuum, and America’s withdrawal would soon be followed by the emergence of another nation that would not exhibit a fraction of America’s decency, fairness, and veneration for the popular will.

Nor her self-sacrifice: the tale is told of Lyndon Johnson in 1966 asking Charles de Gaulle, when France left NATO in 1966 and demanded the removal of all American bases from French soil: “Does your order include the bodies of American soldiers in France’s cemeteries?” (There are 30,922 Americans from the First World War buried in France and 93,245 from the Second.) On D-Day itself, American lost 2,500 killed, Britain 1,641, Canada 359, and there were Australians and New Zealanders too. Indeed, the English-speaking peoples took 98.4 percent of the military casualties liberating France that day, despite the fact that in June 1944 the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia faced no conceivable threat of invasion from Germany.

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About the Author

Andrew Roberts is the author of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 and, most recently, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (125) | Leave a comment

2Anglico| 2.9.10 @ 6:21AM

President Obama... President Obama... President Obama... "DON'T WORRY FAT BOY, ITS JUST A BAD DREAM"!

MikeD| 2.9.10 @ 7:56PM

I find it difficult to even capitalize obama's name, much less address him by his title: The first Affirmative Action President. (It has a truthful ring.) Because obama, and his idiological 'ilk' and friends and mentors are the same people that forced us into defeat in a Vietnam War where we won every battle, but lost the war through the treasonous efforts of the same gaggle of malcontented traitors doing the same thing today: The Liberal adademics; the left-wing of the Demoncrap party, and the nauseating 'nabobs' of the sefl important media.

These are the ones who are the cheerleaders for our downfall, led by the cheerleader in chief; obama. Remember history and those who fail to learn it's lessons. And, remember that a democracy requires two things to function/survive: An educated electorate; and an impartial press/media. We have neither. (I also realize that technically we're a representative republic, but let's pretend for a moment.)

Our President and his fellow conspirators are doing their best to bring our country to it's knees. Not just for personal gain, but for their warped idiology. Obama never grew up in America. He has no idea of our values and traditions, which contribute to our 'special' status. He is ignorant, only demonstrating sufficient knowledge via teleprompter, to continue to thrill the mental defectives who swoon at his every word; the 'useful idiots' of the media; academia, and the truly most pathetic, the once proud Americans of the Democratic Party who have figured out how they were used by their party leaders as weapons to help destroy their own Country. Our President will not reveal his records and transcripts not because he wasn't born an American; he hides them because they document his pathetic performance and lack of any academic accomplishment that wasn't given to him through politically correct affirmative action. Can we get any lower?

RayR| 2.13.10 @ 6:29AM

I was going to comment on the article MikeD, but you succinctly summarized everything I think about "obama the little man president" for me. Thanks you.

Alan Brooks| 2.16.10 @ 11:57PM

the tale is told of Lyndon Johnson in 1966 asking Charles de Gaulle, when France left NATO in 1966 "and demanded the removal of all American bases from French soil: “Does your order include the bodies of American soldiers in France’s cemeteries?” (There are 30,922 Americans from the First World War buried in France and 93,245 "

Why did you have to mention LBJ? He did more than-- if possible--Carter to harm America

Ted| 2.28.10 @ 10:56AM

Do you guys ever engage in any self-examination of your beliefs? Do you ever wonder if they are consistent with reality? When you say that Obama forced us into a defeat, did you stop to consider the absurdity of that statement? Born in 1961, that quite literally would be impossible. Oh, wait, I see. You didn't acutally want to call on anything factual. You wanted to accuse him of something vague, untestable and unverifiable. Convenient, eh?

Perhaps you guys would do better with a little less ranting and more self-examination. Ask your selves, really ask yourselves some serious questions as you write, like, say, 'if someone called me on this sentence, what would i offer to substantiate it?'

You may find that the bashing and name calling is a little harder to do.

Georgi| 2.25.10 @ 7:58AM

I don't know who you are Mike D. but I know I love you. You truly have spoken for the greater percentage of Americans. I too will not address him as my President. I thank you.

Ted| 2.28.10 @ 11:03AM

I'm confused... are you saying you no longer respect the office of the president? or are you saying that you no longer believe in the system of government established by the constitution?

or perhaps you are saying that you so dislike Obama that you are no longer going to refer to him by the title given him under the authority of the US constitution?

I pose the follow question to you then: Do you only respect the representative government when you get the results you like? And if so, perhaps some other political system would be more to your liking, say, for example, one where only conservatives may run and hold office and where only conservatives may vote? Do you think this would be better?

Alan Brooks| 2.9.10 @ 10:49PM

The GOP is still hopelessly adrift twenty years after the Cold War ended.

BHG| 2.10.10 @ 4:43AM

How so? Because we kept the US safe after 9/11? Turned Iraq into a free country - those purple thumbs made Dem peaceniks the same hue. Obama - the first president who thinks we're a Third World, non-aligned country. What a fab no-show in Berlin! Even the French can ask with a straight face if the guy's weak. How's that Republican weakling Scott Brown and the other feebs in NJ and VA working for you? A focused, non-drifting Democratic super-majority Congress that gets NOTHING passed is supposed to impress?

Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 9:12PM

You are ignoring the divisions. Buchanan and millions of his sort supported the Cold War. But today they as much as the left are skeptical because to begin with:
1. an uncharismatic president was elected in '88, who was utterly clueless after the Cold War effectively ended a year later.
2. Dole (nothing more need be written on him).
3. McCain (ditto).
4.Bush 43 was tough, but in way over his head from '2003-'08.

Not good. Not at all. And now the fantasy is Palin might be ready for the presidency when it took Reagan years, after he left the California governorship, to be elected president. And he was much older and--it goes without saying-- FAR more experienced than Palin.

Adrift? you'd better believe it.

Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 9:28PM

... I'd better add that Bush 41 had a good foreign policy, but... well, let's not flog a horse that died two decades ago.

Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 9:38PM

"...Turned Iraq into a free country..."
Notice you neglected to mention Afghanistan. Alright, Bush might, perhaps, have done as well as he could have been expected to do under the dire circumstances of 2003- '08.
So then what can someone such as Palin do years from now that Bush couldn't have done during the last decade?
There is no answer to that question.

Gerald Stephens| 2.9.10 @ 6:42AM

READ...

Ronald Kessler's most recent:

Obama the Marxist - The veil he constructed around his records will be pierced, he will be destroyed by his own hand.

Murtha died: "...Thank God Almighty, free at last".

Gerald Stephens
Hartford, CT

gsr| 2.9.10 @ 7:18AM

Of course; this is obvious because of who Obambi is. A person doesn't easily change from their upbringing. Barry's life was one growing up in and around rabid, anti-American, anti-free enterprise, anti-West anarchists, communists, moooslims, "intellectuals", etc.

Basically, he is against anyone who is not English speaking, not Judeo-Christian. Enough said.

Copyleft| 2.9.10 @ 8:28AM

Interestingly, neither of your qualifications has anything to do with being "American." Which shows this article as the simpleminded, arrogant bigotry it is.

America can, and should be, a great democracy; but it makes a terrible empire. Any notions of America "ruling the world," no matter how craftily disguised, are inherently ANTI-American at their core.

We lead by example... never by force.

LQQKY| 2.9.10 @ 10:28AM

Sorry Copylefty -- America has never been a "great democracy." It has always been a Mega-great Representative Republic. We never aspired to become an empire and have almost lost our system to the crooks in the ruling political class. I think there will be a major housecleaning in Novermber as we begin to take our country back.

Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 9:18PM

"I think there will be a major housecleaning in Novermber as we begin to take our country back."

Okay but no Contract with America or Toffler, please.
Once is enough.

Ted| 2.28.10 @ 11:14AM

This 'take out country back' thing. I'm fascinated by it.

Do you mean to say that when democrats hold power, it is not legitimate and therefore have stolen something from you? Or do you mean that anyone not having a conservative ideology can not legitimately hold power, even if they are elected according to constitutional principles?

or are you intending this more as a vague, non-specific slogan which you can use to rally others like minded individuals on the basis of a common alleged victimhood, a.k.a we've had our most precious heritage stolen from us?

If it is someting else, please elaborate. I seek to understand the meaning of this phrase.

Matt Morehouse| 2.9.10 @ 10:38AM

Yes. We must rule by example, but example unalloyed with force means nothing.

Margie| 2.9.10 @ 12:00PM

Idiot. @ "copyLEFT." You're nothing but a liar. No one said anything about America ruling the world. Typical LEFTIST liar! Did I say liar? Oops!
As for simple-minded, that would be you. You Leftist imbeciles can only THINK one way~ ANTI-AMERICAN! As for this article~ IT IS WONDERFUL AND FANTASTIC and I truly, humbly and ever so thankfully appreciate its author, Mr. Roberts for writing it. He is correct in his analysis and right in his thinking.
Yours, on the other hand leaves a lot to be desired!

MikeD| 2.9.10 @ 8:11PM

Me again. Before I was diagnosed with an incurable disease that has curtailed my activities, I worked for a Fortune 500 Company and was fortunate to manage projects in 78 (Yes, 78!) countries over the years. I made literally thousands of friends in all those places, and am proud to count lots of them as friends to this day. (My e-mail inbox shows it!)

Without exception, I have found that all of them admires America and EVERY ONE WANTED TO COME TO AMERICA! Where I found the hatred and criticism was in the media, without exception!

There is something about the kind of mind that goes into journalism that makes them suseptible to the rabid anti-Americanism they read in OUR PAPERS and see on our TV! That's where the hatred originates. Then, it also comes from the academics; as witnessed by the pure garbage being spewed by all the alleged scientists in on the glogal warming scam that is quickly unraveling.

So, don't believe everything you hear and see. People around the world do NOT hate us; they are just reflecting the venom coming form our, and their, media; like Reuters and AP, just to refer to 2 of the worst.

BHG| 2.10.10 @ 4:53AM

Amen! Their MSM are even worse than ours. AFP gets 80% of its revenues from the government. Plus the governments of certain countries actually believe our left-wing academics. Someone like Chomsky goes bitching to Iraq or wherever complaining about how we're so repressive, you don't think they wonder why if what ge's saying is true he'd even want to go home?
See how Chairman Maobama got Reuters to change a story- thank God Drudge got the original and the "edited" version out.
Try dissing America anywhere in Normandy and find yourself treated very unpleasantly. Only in Paris, among the usual suspects do you get the same evil America rant, for the record. Off the record, it's "how can I get a green card". Please - anyone who actually talks to average citizens - try learning a second language, Obama - you'll see thay anti-Americanism is largely a liberal myth propagated by libtard jornalists and other fifth columnists back in the 60s.

Petronius| 2.28.10 @ 3:25PM

Mike nails it. The sentiments and belief system at the back of all this sturm und drang are laid bare in a now forgotten expose' by Roger Price,(of Monster Madlib fame) in his book, The Great Roob Revolution; Random house 1970. To wit: the 4 words which dominate our polity, "I don't like it." They were last uttered publicly by friend of Hilary, Donna Shalala. On taking office she stated ex cathedra, "we are social engineers. And we are going to change everything we don't like."
#1 thing they don't like; opposition. And woe to all of us who refuse to accept them on their terms. And they don't care in the least that they are a colossal millstone about the neck of our economy vis-a-vis their ignorance, indolence, and incompetence. They also castigate us feigning altruism and scream of "injustice" as the world does not willingly adapt itself to them. Well they killed off growth with over taxation and over regulation. So long as the parasites outnumber the producers at the ballot box decline and fall are inevitable.

Ralph Novy| 2.9.10 @ 12:24PM

Point pretty well made....except I'd change two things:

1. I'd expand "simpleminded, arrogant bigotry" to include something along the lines of "racist jingoism"

and

2. I'd change "We lead by example...." to "We SHOULD lead by example...." because the former is all too undeniably true.

Regards.

danfromatlanta| 2.9.10 @ 1:13PM

Copyleft, do you have any idea what an empire even is? if so, please provide any example of US imperialism (real ones, not the Hugo Chavez allegations). I think you have no idea, so please shut up until you have something intelligent to say.

Copyleft| 2.9.10 @ 1:23PM

Well, Dan, let's take a look:

We've used the World Bank and IMF to exert economic control over developing countries' economies, forcing them to supply us with cheap goods and cheap labor.

We've used our military muscle to invade and occupy other countries, permanently.

We've used our political influence to twist arms in countless negotiations to exert our will on other nations, in pursuit of our interests over theirs.

We've sent out CIA assassination squads to overthrow democratically elected governments and prop up dictators.

So yes, I'd say the neoconservative agenda has been pretty imperial, all things considered. Thankfully, the Bush disaster destroyed their ambitions, and America will never achieve the traitorous dreams of the PNAC.

It remains to be seen if we can redeem our original dream of liberty and democracy, however. The Republicans sure won't be any help.

DAgny Taggert| 2.9.10 @ 3:25PM

Lefty, you're making some stupid generalities.
--Developing countries have benefitted from an increased standard of living by getting involved with American free-market capitalism--the labor only looks cheap to us by our standard of living
--Occupation? Like South Korea? #7 economy in the world--how's it working out for their brothers in the North?
--Using our influence on other nations also includes giving a little taste o' freedom which typically means a better economy for these nations--see China recognizing greater strength in de-centralizing their decision-making
--democratically elected? Like Saddam Hussein? I suppose Ahmadinejad's election was above board to you.
--people from the world over are killing themselves to get into this country; people from the world over are mimicking our culture; our freedom is the envy of the world.

Don't forget that the development of our culture in foreign lands isn't ALL forced on them "imperialistically."

But that angle fits your moonbat worldview, so why stop now?

Christopher Holland| 2.9.10 @ 7:55PM

World Bank, IMF, military muscle, CIA assassination squads, neoconservative agenda! Wow, man, who is your dealer? I want to smoke whatever he gave you.

MikeD| 2.9.10 @ 8:17PM

COPYLEFT:
You're probably so stupid that you don't even know that every death ever caused by any American anywhere in the world was committed by a DEMOCRAT!

And, Every environmental problem ever caused in the Amazon Valley was intentionally perpetrated by Democrats!

And, Al Gore has falsified EVERY thought that has ever come from his fat mouth! (Oops! Sorry, that one's true!) You made up your supposed facts and they're no less valid that the absurd points I just made. the difference is that I know that mine were false. You, in your dementia, thing yours are real! What a maroon!

Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 9:23PM

"Thankfully, the Bush disaster destroyed their ambitions,"

Bush was a 4H picnic compared to the LBJ and Carter catastrophes. And copy, you make Toddard appear like Galbraith.

RayR| 2.13.10 @ 6:34AM

Copyleft- the article is neither arrogant nor bigoted. However, when read with a liberal mindset, your thoughts get clouded and your anti-American leanings take over c0herent thoughts. Please move to a different country. Preferably one full of lemmings where you will feel right at home.

Ted| 2.28.10 @ 11:18AM

And your conservative mindset affords you nothing but objectivity, right?

Ret. Marine| 2.9.10 @ 7:35AM

We are an exceptional kind of lot in that no one person could ever acheive the status of a dictatorship over our freedoms. We are sometimes slow to the table, but when we do awake, look out. No man fights harder than the man who is inclined to keep his God-given rights intact. Surely obama, the pretender-n-theif, see this as well. But the real question these days is, will he back down on his fundamental belief of changing of our independence? if he were smart he'd know better even to try. That is what I fear, the world, at least the english speaking western nations know he is but a blip on the world stage and will soon be gone, but We the People will still be here and try as he may We the People will not tolerate a pretender in our midst nor will we bend to the world over their precieved thoughts as to whether or not we are in decline. Our rebelious stance is who we are, there will be no changing of this trait, it's just who we have become.
I would like to think the world needs to respect us not only for our strenght but our resolve as well. To do otherwise will likely bring bad tidings upon their elitist thoughts. This is a different generation We the People face today. The elite among us who happen to think they are the smartest in the room will fail at their attempt at fundamentaly changing this Nation. They are just arrogant enough to think it can be changed. But, deep in the minds of the ordinary Patriots live a fire, one which is not easily estinguised by them or the wannabe dictator obama. Along with other Nations of the world, the one's that were happy to see our supposed leader bend and bow before other tryants of this world, We the People were appauled at the site and soon will not forget his actions. Our main exceptional strenght is that of a free peoples, It does not matter to the average American Patriot what the world thinks of us, but it does matter if they fear us. I suspect one day soon the world willl once again get froggy and leap only to find the pond is dry and a crash landing is what they will be forced to deal with. We the People can only hope and pray enough still believe in what makes We the People exceptional and do their part in keeping it alive and well in the future for their own children's sake.

Ralph Novy| 2.9.10 @ 12:31PM

Ret. Marine,

You write: "I would like to think the world needs to respect us not only for our strength but our resolve as well."

You honest think THESE are the things the rest of the world should RESPECT us for?....instead of things like honesty, empathy and willingness to extend a helping hand?

What you're talking about isn't respect, my friend. It's fear. They aren't the same thing. Think about it.

danfromatlanta| 2.9.10 @ 1:24PM

I don't care if European socialists don't like us! I don't care if 3rd world dictators and OPEC shieks don't like us. I would rather have the respect of or be feared by our enemies than have their feigned love. The US is the most generous country in the world, bar none! We are the least selfish of any great country of the world. Our enemies and European socialist states act only out of self interest to the exclusion of any other motives. So much so, that even our humanitarian efforts to countries devastated by natural disasters, even countries like Haiti that can offer nothing of value to the US, are characterized as "occupation" by tin horn dictators like Hugo Chavez.

Copyleft| 2.9.10 @ 2:31PM

"I don't care who doesn't like us!"

Really, Dan? You should. Countries that hate us tend to send suicide bombers and anthrax and hiajckers our way.

If the U.S. is so generous and compassionate, why do we have so many enemies? Ever think there may be something ELSE we're spreading around the world besides humanitarian aid?

Take off your blinders, Dan; pretending America is perfect isn't patriotism, it's jingoism. And it only hurts our country in the long run.

Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 9:47PM

As Churchill would have noted, CopyLeft, America is a bad country-- but better than the others.
Now, Scandinavia is at least as good to live in as America is. Exactly: NOW. but for how long?
Scandinavia is under NATO's (e.g. America's) protection.
You think too much of yourself;
but not enough of America.

Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 9:55PM

... oh, 'fo I forget, Scandinavia is WHITEY, CopyLeft.
not too meny o' them thar colored people to cause trubble there.

Dem Scandonavy-Annes make damn sho X-sess people stay out of DER countries!

Louis Jenkins| 2.9.10 @ 2:23PM

And oddly, of the top fifteen countries that received US government aid in 2004, 8 were predominately or had a significant Muslim populations. Total aid given by private groups or agencies was 93.2 billion in 2007, or 50% of US aid that year. The Federal government gave 27.6 billion, and private lending and investment was 69.2 billion (36%). Proving that a majority of the helping hand (86%) was given by private concerns, not the Federal government. (Hudson Inst. 2007) And that still doesn't garner respect. Someone somewhere has an efficient anti-US propaganda machine.

Ted| 2.28.10 @ 11:22AM

When you use the words "pretender-n-theif", do you expect others to think to themselves:
- hmm, this guy is an objective reasoner, I ought to consider his ideas
-hmm, this guy resorts to name calling, reflecting the likely case that his ideas are so weak he need to force-feed me his conclusions and hatred
-hmm, this guy thinks like me...no challenges here, rah, rah, rah!!!

Kasigi Yabu| 2.9.10 @ 7:45AM

Mr. Obama, like most African Americans, is obsessed with removing money from the pockets of those who work and placing it into the pockets of those who won't.

He cares nothing for the working man or woman, his or her opportunities. His is the vision of Mao, Castro, and Chavez: the state must control every aspect of every life within it's borders.

As a friend from Nicaragua told me once the Sandinistas took over " Somza was very bad, he controlled what you could say and do in public. The Sandinistas were much worse: they tried to control what you could know and what you could think." That is, succinctly stated, Mr. Obama's agenda.

Jamie W.| 2.9.10 @ 9:21AM

"Mr. Obama, like most modern LIBERALS,"

(FTFY - the color of one's skin has nothing to do with one's attitude.)

Jamie W.| 2.9.10 @ 9:26AM

"Mr. Obama, like most modern LIBERALS,"

(FTFY - the color of one's skin has nothing to do with one's attitude.)

Ralph Novy| 2.9.10 @ 12:34PM

"Mr. Obama, like most African Americans...."

How "exceptional."

Martine| 2.9.10 @ 7:49AM

Get rid of Obama and let the resurgence begin.

Hardcard| 2.9.10 @ 8:29AM

Stop the obamasoros monster now!!!!

Deborah D| 2.9.10 @ 8:34AM

Thank you for this thoughtful piece, Mr. Roberts. America will survive this most grave of times in its history. Americans are awakening to what type of people are running our country into the ground. We will fight those who want to see the country taken down to a kind of Venezuela with 50 states. My fear is that Obama will retreat so far into the domestic side of the equation -- since that is where he is most comfortable -- and kiss the rings of the tyrants around the world. That's where the danger lies.

I like this quote: "Courage is fear that has said its prayers." I think that's where everyday Americans are right now. We won't let this country slide without a big, hairy fight. As your own Winston Churchill said, "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender."

davelnaf| 2.9.10 @ 8:41AM

The question whether Obama is outside the American mainstream is beyond dispute at this point. As a ‘reformer’ nurtured on the pabulum of Euro style socialism and consequently painfully ignorant of what this country is all about he will do his share of damage. But after he is gone in another three years the country will shake off what remains of his insipid policies along with most, if not all, the damage he will have caused by then.

MikeBee| 2.9.10 @ 9:19AM

The communist/socialist dream is the leveling of all societies in the world, everywhere. They truly believe that, if the richer, more powerful nations are brought down, and the poorer, less powerful nations are brought up, that there will then be true world peace. They may even quote Scripture while they attempt this leveling: "every valley will be exalted, every mountain made low." This is the reason that communists/socialists have no problem with small nations possessing nuclear weapons. They believe that, if all nations have equal military and economic strength, they will all "check" each other, and there will be world peace. Of course, their worldview does not account for any doctrine of sin or the sinful nature of man, and is, therefore, inherently flawed. Given the sinful nature of man, the best situation for there to be between nations is for there to be a strong, benevolent power which can keep world leaders who would oppress others in check, and which can help other nations when they are hurting. America and the English-speaking peoples fill this role very well right now. The United States is the only nation in the history of mankind whose warrior soldiers are known worldwide as Gentlemen Soldiers. This is because, as they must fight in wars, U.S. citizens bring with them their great compassion both for the oppressed and for the enemy.

Obama's dream is the communist/socialist dream of leveling all powers in the world. This is the reason that he actively pursues the redistribution of wealth. This is the reason that he, much like other communists before him, doesn't try to win wars against our enemies. He believes that, if America is brought down, and if our enemies are brought up, then we will be at peace. He really doesn't understand the evil desire of radical Muslims to "convert or kill" all Jews and Christians.

America has always been the one place in the world where people can attempt to be the best that they can be, without interference from anyone else. And for those in America who don't wish to even attempt to be better, but, rather, are content to be taken care of, we are the most charitable nation on earth, too. We will take care of them, to a reasonable extent.

It my sincere hope that a strong majority of Americans still wish to pursue individual excellence, unhindered by a nanny government. If so, then America will remain the superpower and example that it is to the world. If so, then Obama and his communist cohorts will eventually slink away, unsuccessful in implementing their Platonic dream. The midterm elections are only nine months away. It's time for the one nation in the world whose ruler/leaders are its citizens to stand up. It's time for the true rulers of America to take their nation back from those who would make it into something else, and who would turn us from rulers into indentured servants.

Louis Jenkins| 2.9.10 @ 9:37AM

“Yet what I fear might have changed is a growing unwillingness of the elites of the English-speaking peoples to continue paying the price for their liberty.”

The ‘elites’ are a nation unto themselves, part of a world community, as exhibited by the United Nations’ conduct. Liberty, as we understand the Bill of Rights, is an ancient concept for the ‘huddled masses,’ and as an old concept was written by archaic men wearing powdered wigs, stockings, and long coats (dare we mention slave owners too!). Granted, those framers of the Constitution were Elitists in their day and age, but they were tempered by a belief in God, enterprise, and hard work. They believed that everyman could achieve exceptional status through these things. Liberty for each man was a gift from God, not from a benevolent ruler or other nations. And they realized from the beginning that a blood price would have to be paid. A pan would have to be primed, a trigger pulled, or a bayonet would have used. Hunger, destitution, and poverty would also follow. Despot Kings did not go about freely granting Liberty.

Today our PC policy, formed from Communist/UN/Elitist thinking and international law, is to accept diversity and entitlement as a goal for the common good. One of the Federalist Papers, can’t recall which one, profoundly states that this country’s common language, English, cultural similarities, and Christian religion would be the greatest factors of a successful nation. But by accepting modern PC attitudes of diversity and entitlement this nation accepts alien religions, that wealth must be shared, that multiple cultures in a neighborhood or nation is a valid way of life, and that exceptionalism is an aged form of colonialism (ie slavery). Although on your knees even a despot ruler can be beneficial.

By this nation’s acceptance of these things it loses the willingness to pay the price for Liberty. It accepts the dominance of Elites, despots in their own right, and ceases to have the fire in the belly that has made this nation what it is. These concepts are adverse to the vision of our founding fathers. And it is contra to many citizens in these United States. It will not be easy for them.

Ken (Old Texican)| 2.9.10 @ 10:01AM

Mr. Roberts,
Thank you for the shout-out.
I once had a history prof that did an interesting take on empires.
He talked about "Briton" becoming the inheritor of the Roman Empire...the successful offspring.
He spoke of America becoming The British Empire's child and inheritor.

We are an empire...of a unique sort to be sure.
Why?
Because we re-invented the idea of the sovereign citizen instead of a loyal "subject", and have spread the idea across the globe.
But you are precisely correct with your title.
WE were lulled to sleep, hmmmmm, much as we were after WWI.
Of course none of us will ever forget TOJO's words:
"I am afraid all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant...and filled him with a terrible resolve."

Interestingly enough, those words are reflected in our own web-site http://judgeroy.wordpress.com
Check out our logo/motto.

We are the sharp end of the spear for many of the hundreds of tea-party movement groups.
Heh!
We are the "non local" outside agitators, with no fears of a local retaliation.
Often with a single phone-call, we can turn the key on any local election anywhere.

As our "primary" season cranks up...heh there are going to be lots more phone-calls.

Thank you, Briton, for passing to us the best of yourself .

Ken (Old Texican)| 2.9.10 @ 10:05AM

Get your scroll button finger warmed up folks.

I feel a screed coming. heh

bob| 2.9.10 @ 1:41PM

Correction for you- it wasn't war-monger Tojo that said that, it was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. You're welcome.

Niick| 2.9.10 @ 1:43PM

Ken,

As a minor correction, it was Admiral Yamamoto who made the "sleeping giant" quote.

Excellent post, sir!

MOS was 71331| 2.9.10 @ 2:11PM

Although the "sleeping giant" statement was spoken by Admiral Yamamoto in the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora" and not General Tojo, I don't recall any book I've read which discussed the attack on Pearl Harbor mentioning Yamamoto's statement. Can that statement be documented? As Y didn't survive the war, he never wrote memoirs which could have mentioned such a statement. However, many of his associates survived WWII as did many Japanese documents. Is there any evidence that this statement wasn't simply invented by the T-T-T screenwriters?

Louis Jenkins| 2.9.10 @ 2:56PM

Yamamoto is quoted as having said, "The fact that we have had a small success at Pearl Harbor is nothing…. Personally I do not think it is a good thing to whip up propaganda to encourage the nation. People should think things over and realize how serious the situation is. To win, we would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House." And unlike the Japanese, American citizens were armed.

cuban pete| 2.9.10 @ 4:05PM

One theory I have heard is that because Yamamoto was educated at Harvard and had observed Americans "up close" he held that opinion. Also, MOS was 71331, in your readings did you ever come across the belief that Yamamoto also lobbied for Japan to sue for peace right after Pearl Harbor?

Christopher Holland| 2.9.10 @ 8:09PM

In October 1941 the Prime Minister of Japan, Prince Kanoye (the last civilian to hold the post before the military took over) asked Yamamoto, as Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, what would happen if there was a war with the US. Yamamoto said he would run wild for 12 to 18 months, but after that he could guarantee nothing. Yamamoto always knew that that dice were loaded against Japan and he told the government that. They didn't listen and that is how catastrophes happen. Obama is a good example of a catastrophe waiting to happen - he is an incompetent knowall who never listens and always blames others for his mistakes.

Yamamoto wasn't alone in understanding the risks of war with the US - quite a few naval officers agreed with him. Admiral Nagumo, the commander of the Pearl Harbour striking force, was not happy at all about it, he thought that war with the US was a huge mistake. But he was given an order and he carried it out.

Nick| 2.9.10 @ 11:21PM

I should know by now not to get my history from movies. I thought I had learned this lesson 15 years ago.

But I thought a movie as well put together as "Tora Tora Tora" would use a credible quote.

I stand corrected.

donserge| 2.9.10 @ 10:02AM

One recent poll noted that 36% of the people in the U.S. have no problem with socialism. Changing this attitude will take three things: Education, Education and Education. Until we get a handle on our school system, anything else we do will only be a finger in the dike.

Copyleft| 2.9.10 @ 3:19PM

True; that number should be much higher.

We need to educate people away from primitive, fear-based reactions to scare words, and into a more sensible discussion of how government can best serve our interests, rather than those of Wall Street.

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 3:40PM

Let me get this straight.... People see the Wall Street banks get rich on their money, and then get bailed out with their money while taking unbelievable risks, and they don't think that's fair? While GDP has grown over the last decade, the median family income has dropped. Most families are taxed more than rich hedge funds. We have the greatest disparity between rich and poor than at any time in our history. And you wonder why some people think socialism is not all that bad?

How can you support education and believe in Unintelligent Design? We can start education with you and the others here at AmSpec. The Republican party used to be intellectually competent with people like William Buckley. Now we have that idiot, Sarah Palin.

Fiscal conservatism is a winning governing concept, but when idiots here misuse "socialism" and "marxism", you know they don't understand fiscal issues. When people here don't want to study the charts and data, you know they don't understand fiscal issues.

Mattled| 2.9.10 @ 10:25AM

He trampled our rights!!! Aarggggh!!

That ---that---failure Bush, er---OBAMA!!

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/.....03/322959/

Libtard heads explode (let's see---Bush did it--nyah, nyah--)

*Yawn*.

Obama wants to be a dictator. The left doesn't want to govern, it wants control. Mi Amigo Chavez is a business model for him (even though he will be looking for model airplanes when he hears "business model").

Let's just call bipartisanship and let states govern themselves that want to and let states be "controlled" that want to. We'll see who survives.

Kent Lyon| 2.9.10 @ 10:56AM

American exceptionalism is written in its founding documents. No other nation in the world or in history has written a Constitution that enshrines Natural Right. American exceptionalism is not exceptional in the sense that the American founding implies that all men should live free under Natural Right, with government drawing its just powers from the consent of the people. American bodies are buried in France because we believe the French, indeed all humans, possess the same Natural Right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that we do. And we're willing to fight for that, for ourselves and others.
Obama does not believe in American exceptionalism because he does not believe in Natural Right, does not believe in the American Founding, does not believe in the right of all to Life, Libery, and the Pursuit of happiness, except at his direction. He is a Progressive who believes he should be allowed to over-ride, ignore, debase, denigrate, and destroy the will of the people, that his political aspirations far exceed, and should never be constrained by, considerations regarding the liberty of the people. The destructon of American liberty, his goal, will lead to economic stagnation, and international chaos, as this Lilliputian constrains the great Gulliver that is the American people and their liberty.

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Ralph Novy| 2.9.10 @ 12:42PM

Mr. Roberts, you'd never cut it as a cryptographer. "English-speaking peoples" is laughably decodable.
You might as well stick to plain racist rant.

Ken (Old Texican)| 2.9.10 @ 1:07PM

Hi Ralph
I notice that your e-mail address is

rn@whitehouse.doodoo.gov

Is that a codeword for covert operative for the "communist in chief"?
(pardon my shorthand)
heh.

Tony in Central PA| 2.9.10 @ 1:03PM

We have had three, maybe four decades of indoctrination on most college campuses and even in public schools that has blamed America for everything wrong with the world. I don't think this is a uniquely an American self - loathing because I can see some of this in Western Europe.

Its a monomaina that focuses on the real or imagined crimes of Western societies while ignoring any positive contributions or achievements. It also ignores all evils committed by nonWestern entities. Maybe its a universal symptom of societies facing collapse. I'm sure the people preaching it don't know the history behind it.

Ted| 2.28.10 @ 11:29AM

Yes, I like my blindness the other way around.

watashi| 2.9.10 @ 1:22PM

Unfortunately this is not the America of the great depression and dust bowl where farmers packed their entire impoverished families and meager belongings into jalopies and made their way to California to pick peaches. These “migrant” workers went on to become the farmers who helped revolutionize the agricultural miracle in the San Joaquin Valley that helped feed the world. Today’s impoverished go to ACORN to figure out how to get paid for doing nothing courtesy of, among other taxpayers, of those very same farmers who are feeding the world. We are working with a different set of demographics today and the results of 50 years of the social structure being torn apart by the “elites” in academia, Hollywood, the legacy media, and the government infrastructure. Fortunately there are enough Americans still left that are willing to defend the country in the military, participate in Tea Parties, and vote for people like Scott Brown even in states like Massachusetts that it can still be pulled off. Let’s don’t give up the ship.

Leftistfacts!| 2.9.10 @ 2:27PM

Love the comment, "The USA leads by example, not force"
Just a quick google search shows 70 countries invaded by the US in modern times.
Sometimes we're right & sometimes we're wrong.
The militarists in America & the "Patriotic" voters
who enable them could (turn off the TV & ) read up on this stuff before they comment

Copyleft| 2.9.10 @ 2:34PM

Correct. As another poster already pointed out, I should have said "America SHOULD lead by example," not that we always do.

Darned ol' patriotic optimism on my part, I guess. Always thinking of ways America could be better, and other "treasonous" stuff.

Jim Hlavac| 2.9.10 @ 8:53PM

Indeed, we did "invade" a multitude of countries -- Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Italy, to name a few -- they all came out the better for it. Japan, ditto.
Further back, Cuba, Philipines -- overthrew a Spanish King.
We invaded to liberate -- which is different than any other invading country on earth, ever.
Invade to liberate is not the typical way of the world -- all of which other nations invaded to subjugate. Don't confuse you invasion purposes by merely pointing out guns were used.

Copyleft| 2.10.10 @ 8:08AM

And yet, so many of those poor savages seem so ungrateful for our benevolent management of THEIR countries! Hard to take such ingratitude, isn't it? Ahh, the burdens of empire....

gene Hauber| 2.9.10 @ 4:19PM

how did we ever elect this ANTI-AMERICAN PIECE OF SHIT as our president?? ARE WE THAT STUPID??
I'm not, but I think many of the rest of you really are.
Citizenship is NOT something you learn from MTV OR THE REALITY SHOWS.
GROW UP AND GET SMART!!!

Ted| 2.28.10 @ 11:35AM

Basic writing technique 101. Understand you audience. When you say "ANTI-AMERICAN PIECE OF SHIT", you've automatically excluded from your audience everyone who doesn't agree with you and who doesn't think that name calling makes an effective case (e.g. you're a CLOWN...effective huh, do you think you're a clown now?). But later, you refer to your audience as stupid, which really are most of the people who agree with you.

Ironically, you are probably right.

Ken (Old Texican)| 2.9.10 @ 4:26PM

Leftist facts,
are exactly that. "Factoidlings telling a lie."
Sometimes...sometimes...I wish we "militarists" had the technology to place you in an alternate reality without our efforts around the globe, perhaps for just one day and night.
See, I notice you whine in American English, on a 21st century computer. You spout your whining without fear of any retribution except we grownups laughing at you. We have made you a pretty darned secure nest to squeek from haven't we?

Then we get your partner,

Copyleft,
squeeking in harmony. OK, here is a thought. Quit spending so much time "thinking about how much better America could be", with you as the supervisor.
Instead, go DO something to make America better.
Maybe you could go erect crosses on the hundreds of millions of graves that your fellow "leftists" put their innocent citizens into for questioning them.

Ted| 2.28.10 @ 11:38AM

Yeah, dude. I mean. Like great job forcing them guys to invent the computer.

Sorry. Couldn't resist. But seriously, do you mean to say that because force can be used to protect freedom, we all ought to turn a blind eye to what the force wielder's do? Because, that seems to be what you're suggesting.

Chris| 2.9.10 @ 7:36PM

Obama only believes in his own exceptionalism. The trolls may defend the flawed vision of this empty suited narcissistic gasbag all they want, but it is still the flawed vision of an empty suited narcissistic gas bag.

Jim Hlavac| 2.9.10 @ 8:49PM

Well, Obama and his idiot chorus might not believe in American Exceptionalism -- but We the People sure do. And when the next president takes office I hope She (you know who) formally apologizes to the world for having inflicted this putz upon the dreams of humankind. We made a mistake. Like with Carter. Then we answered with Reagan. Such will happen again. America is not doomed, it is the Socialist Democrats and their putz of a leader.

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C.K. Amos| 2.9.10 @ 11:22PM

Yes, "we must tremble for the future."

Why? Because apparently the voting electorate is so ignorant and illiterate and easily duped that a slight majority of it elected anti-American, anti-capitalist, Marxist ideologue Obama as president based on nothing but the community organizer's hot air.

As to the question, "Will America continue to provide the global leadership she always has"?

Only when Obama, his thugocracy and the Democrats, liberals and leftists--and the Democrat-Lites in the Republican Party--are driven from office. Permanently. And by a real American who loves her, warts and all, and who really will protect and defend her and the Constitution.

It'll help, too, if the state-controlled minion media, the current Fifth Column, are driven into the ground

Yosemeti Sam| 2.10.10 @ 7:27AM

" ... Historians will long debate how this recession started and who was responsible— the repeal of Glass-Steagall, Alan Greenspan’s interest
rate policies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s lending strategy, Hank Paulson’s stewardship of the Treasury, all will be investigated by what Churchill once called “the pitiless inquest of History” ...."

Not to mention Rahms', Gorelicks' and Cuomos' golden parachute 'remunerative' millions for steering Fannie in happy-go-lucky directions.

Agreed, as to Churchills' opinion - but with a caveat-like surety of awareness to the ever present contributory putatively amicus curiae 'briefs' sing-songed by the LBSM PEN1 to facilitate a glossy propagandized history cum the revisionist Left brotherhood of ideologues.

LBSM PEN1 - Left(ist) backwater stream media; public enemy no. 1!

No laughing matter!

Ken (Old Texican)| 2.10.10 @ 9:20AM

If I must stand corrected about the quote and the source, guys, you all have my apology.

I thought the quote was pulled from TOGO's diary, then placed on the lips of Yamamoto to make the movie flow.

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WAKE UP| 2.11.10 @ 3:17PM

America, you have (astonishingly) elected someone who is UN-American. Change that and you'll be on the road back.

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Ike| 2.18.10 @ 11:38PM

How could you leave Dwight Eisenhower off the list of great American leaders and include JFK? Eisenhower had more years of leadership (1942-1961) and made more important decisions than any of the others listed!

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