http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/we_still_have_paris.htmlMarch 28, 2015
We Still Have Paris
By Richard F. Miniter
You won’t hear the song about the decline of the nation’s power and influence overseas along American rivers out on its farms or in its factories, nor in its offices and homes, but only among the self-obsessed chattering class in Manhattan, Washington, and in self-important academic enclave after enclave where it’s an award winning soundtrack. America’s best days as a power in the world, as a force for good, are over, is how its words go. More than that -- that such days should be over because it was never really a force for good, not really. Instead, America is and was an oppressive imperialist state, immoral and power mad. Murderous “cowboys” always upsetting the more sophisticated, accommodating, and nuanced goals of the much smarter ruling European intellectual elite.
Indeed, the intellectuals, both theirs and ours (please remember that intellectual doesn’t mean “smart” it means having no life experience other a theory) have created such a din about America’s faults that the American media and many American politicians, especially those with a leftist hue, have bought into the concept.
And so we have a United States senator standing up in Congress to accuse American soldiers of being jackbooted thugs, we have a man elevated to Secretary of State who once opined that American solders could be compared to the murdering hordes of Genghis Khan, and of course we have our sad president today. A man who, from the moment of his flash transition from a lazy, obscure, and thoroughly corrupt state politician to the great “hope” of mankind, rarely hid his disdain for and ignorance of uniformed Americans in the air, afloat. and on the ground overseas. The “kids we went to high school with” who despite what those intellectuals would have us believe, keep the peace so that all those picturesque European cities and farms, stay picturesque European cities and farms.
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