By Dennis Prager, The Stream, May 13, 2021
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. …
America is going through convulsions that may destroy it as the country we and the world have known for more than two centuries.
A Force for Good in the World
For all its flaws — virtually all of which were not unique to America but universal throughout human civilization — America has been regarded more than any other nation in modern times as a force for good in the world.
When a country is hit with a severe earthquake, its people do not look first to France or Germany — let alone to Russia or China — for assistance. They look to America. When bad people invade a country, the people of the invaded country hope and pray America will come to their aid. And for more than a century, when beleaguered people saw American troops, they generally danced with joy. …