Another Canadian beat me – by many decades – to say that Americans are blamed and shamed far more than they deserve. In fact, Americans now constantly blame their past selves for their predicaments. Yes, unwise decisions and poorly justified convictions have occupied America’s past and will likely recur in America’s future. But Americans succumbing to self-hatred will not only hurt the United States; it will hurt the entire world.
One such popular salvo against the U.S. involves the concept of “regime change.” Expanded to refer to either any use of the military or any action in service of democratization, “regime change” is high on the list of inner-Beltway profanities. If you want to destroy someone’s ideas, credibility, or reputation, you need only associate him or her as a supporter of “regime change.”
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Nicholas J. Romanow 