We appear to have abdicated the “position of moral leadership” we occupied after the fall of the Soviet Union, and then again after 9/11. We are easily portrayed and widely viewed not as moral leaders but as hypocrites whose actions betray our own ideals, who value liberty and prosperity for ourselves alone, and whose cultural expressions of freedom amount to little more than garish displays of decadence with little or no regard to the public good. American freedom is being discredited as an ideal throughout the world by nations seeking to justify their own repressive conduct; increasingly, they cite as support our self-absorbed culture and our feckless politics. More. |
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