In this column, America is Not Post-Anything by Victor Davis Hanson, I’m pleased to read that he agrees with me.  I’m also pleased that he has the audience to communicate my thoughts.

My point along has been America is great because of its citizens and despite the people in its government, be they elected or appointed.  And this was a sentiment of Ronald Reagan’s.  American is great, though it must be granted that there are many American citizens who long to be wards of the state.

Many want to be taken care of.  We know this from what is seen and heard in the public area.  In short, I refer to the Wealth fare State.  This peculiar kind of Victorian domination rears it ugly and self-deceiving head because many lack the self-motivation most other Americans have. 

Still, America is great.  For a nation of people to be so loath, while that same people still gives money, time and lives to help those that hate them, Americans can be bad at all.  That corruption assigned to Americans by others simply defies logic and common sense.

Interestingly enough, American is the only nation to help the foes it defeats, Iraq being the most recent recipient of American goodwill, not charity, but goodwill.  On the international state charity breeds resentment, goodwill expects a return, which is not bad or deceitful because in goodwill the operative word is good, which is not opportunistic.

America is great and as long as most Americans known that and understand why, the nation will gone on.  What must be understood is that American is a sense of being, which can resend borders, just observe Japan, a growing, budding, technological society, which cut its moorings to its feudal past. 

American is great because in a free society the people have three desires:  to work, to love their family and to pay their taxes without fear of constraint by their government or dictatorial behave by governmental surrogates.  Many of its citizens have the historical understanding and the intellectual ability to protect their freedom of the slobbering jaws of social and economic collectivists, scientific materialists and cavalierly uninformed ‘do-gooder.’

American is great simply because it tolerates its detractors—foreign and domestics— and continues to work and strive in a world where the future always seems to be a long night. 

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While reading this bit:  US troops poised to cross Afghan border for raid on bases (al-Qaeda and Taliban bases in the lawless North Waziristan tribal belt in Pakistan), something struck me about the whole border situation which is interesting in a very odd way.

Pakistan is a rival nation to India, having been fighting over Kashmir for decades.  Pakistan also has nuclear weapons and relatively recent elections. 

Afghanistan is a burgeoning democracy in the midst of a fight for its life against fascist elements of a previous and tyrannical Taliban government and al-Qaeda collaborators. The nation is also trying to drag itself out of the 12^th century. 

Now, here’s the intriguing point and that is Pakistan is the nation with basically, no solid northern border, but something called a North West Frontier.  This frontier is peopled by tribes which have so much autonomy that they might as well be totally independent. 

It is often stated that a nation is defined by its borders and having the power to secure those borders.  So, by those parameters, is Pakistan an independent nation? 

Just a thought as the US appears to be finally taking command of the border situation and the fight to al-Qaeda and Taliban.

Also, just maybe the US might begin to consider its own border situation. 

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Well, I’ll go one better:

We live in the land of the Bubble People, and facts are not allowed to violate the bubble.  For many people, they live in a state of unreality, that is, it’s my team verses your team to the point were the fall back line is something like:  “I was only following orders.”

The lesson of the child self-esteem is more important then getting the answer right has infiltrated the ‘adult’ world—where adults want to be perpetual youths, they dream dreams and never have to face the adult world where there are no magic wands and no one to turn down the bed at night. 

So, the willful failure to recognize a fact is a real and distressing psychological issue.  We must now seek a pill—or better yet develop am effective trauma-therapy to force adults to put away the toys of youth.  I say effective, because and strangely enough, 9/11 couldn’t do it.  Planes, falling builds and bodies just weren’t enough.

What the elements of this trauma theory could be, I know not—not yet that is. I haven’t formulated even a passing, even, glib comment, but something must be done.  Adults must face facts and that is difficult when these same adults desire—as children desire—someone like a political candidate or the government to take care of them.

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