A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...

[draveneyes]

After reading some of the comments left about my Debt post, I thought it would be prudent to post a very brief overview of what I feel America's place to be on the world stage. Just as a good teacher has trained his tongue, as the old rabbi put it, to say "I don't know," and a good man of literature knows, in turn, his own linguistic limitations

Comments

[myrddins]

Ok, so. Good sentiments. But can you really make the claim that "you will not find natives of France, Germany, Japan, Columbia, etc. so in love with their country as Americans are with America"? Even if it were true, which I don't believe for a second, how would you logically know that with enough certitude to make that statement? Just a thought

new york = rome ; )

[midnightwispers]

so far i'm following your thinking, and completely agree with the comment of new york equal to rome ; ) but what keeps popping up to me is the fact that we should fix our own problems and work more on the issues that personally affect us daily in our own country before we put so much time and effort into fixing everyone elses. drop the debt is a great cause and i hope and pray it works out, but just think, if you take all those people who believe and support this cause and turn it to abortion and immorality or whatever else is out there in the streets of our hometowns, how great would america be then? charity begins at home.

roman manifest destiny

[anonymous]

It could certainly be said that Romans and Americans view the world the same way. A great many people, behind, lucky to be given a chance to peek into the glory that is Rome/America. But, as Anonymous said, When rome let the outside world in, or gave the outside world a piece of their civilization it was worth having. Americans bring new methods of birth control, new variaties of fastfood, and new money to the outside world. If any of this was worth having I would love America too. We serve not to bring culture to the world but to dumb it down. We did not cradle the great artists of the world...we did however create a paint-by-numbers version of Starry Night. If that is what we want the world to become, then on with "progress."