Obama the America denier

AMERICAN THINKER, 12/17/2009 by Bruce Walker - Most people involved in public affairs fall into two grand schools: Some believe that America is a unique nation, a nation built upon extraordinary and good moral values, and a country which is a microcosm of what the world should be. These people need not be Americans. Churchill, for example, was an unabashed admirer of America. ∴ Other people believe that America is simply a very arrogant country, a nation inhabited with bumpkins who believe too much in God, and because of its religious faith and confidence, the antithesis of what the world should be. This animus flourishes outside America, but it also has a strong camp following in America. ∴ Barack Obama is decidedly in the second camp. He is an "America Denier." Read more at American Thinker... Read More......

Krauthammer: Decline Is a Choice

THE WEEKLY STANDARD, 10/19/2009, Volume 015, Issue 05 by Charles Krauthammer - The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy. The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch. The Asian awakening. The post-American world. Inexorable forces beyond our control bringing the inevitable humbling of the world hegemon.

On the other side of this debate are a few--notably Josef Joffe in a recent essay in Foreign Affairs--who resist the current fashion and insist that America remains the indispensable power. They note that declinist predictions are cyclical, that the rise of China (and perhaps India) are just the current version of the Japan panic of the late 1980s or of the earlier pessimism best captured by Jean-François Revel's How Democracies Perish. Read more at The Weekly Standard... Read More......