Wednesday 23 June 2010
America Cowed: Are We Too Frightened to Forge Our Future?
Well, yes, sadly, we are. Pundits of the left and right tell us to be afraid of politicians, especially those from the other side, to hate our bankers, to cut and run from our military obligations, to walk away from mortgages that are under water, that the sky is heating up, that criminals have taken over our streets and that every stranger is a potential rapist or child molester. They have preached fear for so long that we believe them.
Which came first, courage or FDR?
Would courage have come without the necessity of war to bring it forward?
If we do not find it, and quickly, it will be China that takes the lead and we, like Europe before us, will have to learn to follow.
Well, yes, sadly, we are. Pundits of the left and right tell us to be afraid of politicians, especially those from the other side, to hate our bankers, to cut and run from our military obligations, to walk away from mortgages that are under water, that the sky is heating up, that criminals have taken over our streets and that every stranger is a potential rapist or child molester. They have preached fear for so long that we believe them.
Which came first, courage or FDR?
Would courage have come without the necessity of war to bring it forward?
If we do not find it, and quickly, it will be China that takes the lead and we, like Europe before us, will have to learn to follow.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 21:15 
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