A Clarifying Moment in American History

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Eliot Cohen: 'A Clarifying Moment in American History'

 

This is one of those clarifying moments in American history, and like most such, it came upon us unawares, although historians in later years will be able to trace the deep and the contingent causes that brought us to this day. There is nothing to fear in this fact; rather, patriots should embrace it. The story of the United States is, as Lincoln put it, a perpetual story of a rebirth of freedom and not just its inheritance from the founding generation.(...)

 

To repair the damage he will have done Americans must give particular care to how they educate their children, not only in love of country but in fair-mindedness; not only in democratic processes but democratic values. Americans, in their own communities, can find common ground with those whom they have been accustomed to think of as political opponents. They can attempt to renew a political culture damaged by their decayed systems of civic education, and by the cynicism of their popular culture.

Eliot Cohen served as a counselor in the Bush Administration State Department from 2007 to 2009 and was one of the first and strongest proponents of "regime change" in Iran and Iraq. He has also been a steadfast #NeverTrump voice.

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If you stand for the Muslim ban you will be the villian your children,grand children, great grand children read about it their history books