Just when I’d begun to feel that all Europeans were anti-American, I come across Eamonn Fitzgeral’ds latest entry…
Thanksgiving for the indispensable nation
Seeing that some 60 percent of Rainy Day’s site visits originate from the USA, it would be churlish indeed to let Thanksgiving pass without giving thanks to all those Americas, not just for those visits, though, but for, well, being there.
In the war on terrorism and in the struggle to liberalize the Middle East, Americans are dying almost daily. No other Western nation is able or willing to fight the huge civilizational conflict that’s now upon us. That may sound a bit dramatic, a bit apocalyptic, perhaps, but the war within Islam threatens not just peaceful Muslims, it threatens all of us because when fanaticism is combined with modern technology borders become irrelevant. In the coming years, this war will be fought in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Indonesia. The stakes are very, very high and that’s why the struggle in Iraq is so critical.
So, today, let us give thanks for America, the principal guarantor of a global democratic order. For those countries who have long congregated under American protection, and for those newly liberated states that cannot survive without it, the United States is the one, truly indispensable nation.
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