Pamela Geller, WND Column: 3 biggest mistakes America ever made

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Read my column in today’s WND. Many of you have your own ideas about America’s the three biggest mistakes America made but many of them are a result of one of these three (ie abandonment of Israel – that’s Obama).

The only thing missing from this list is the passage of The Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890 – the beginning of the end of capitalism.

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In her 239-year history, America has made three colossal mistakes. These do not, however, overwhelm the fact that the idea of America is wholly unique to mankind.

America was the first moral government based on individual rights and freedom. No other government in the history of mankind was based on such a concept. Man’s value and his inalienable rights were paramount to the Founding Fathers. Extraordinary. Everything noble and magnificent that this great nation achieved was in accord with the principle of individual rights.

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The idea of American exceptionalism – a concept that President Obama not only scorns but has absolutely no understanding of – is synonymous with the concept of individualism. What is American exceptionalism except individual exceptionalism?

Individualism regards every man as an independent being who possesses an unalienable right to live his own life, dream his own dream and be the master of his own destiny; no group, no mob, no special interest has rights other then the individual rights of all of its citizens.

The social system of a nation based on individualism is capitalism. The best description that comes to mind is from “Atlas Shrugged”: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” Indeed, this is what made America great.

But there have been these three principal mistakes:

1) Slavery

At the time of the American founding, slavery was common practice. Blacks were sold into slavery by other black tribes. Africans and Muslims sold slaves to European and American slave traders.

But slavery was an assault on the very idea of America. A country based on individual rights could hardly reconcile that with the idea of slavery. Capitalism is the only system incompatible with slavery. Our Founding Fathers knew this, and they fought long and hard with the slave states, but those states were having none of it. During the Constitutional Convention and all of the debates concerning the Constitution, the best men wanted to abolish slavery right away, and, clearly, they should have. The South, however, would not join the Union without slaves. Without the South, the fledging country would not win a war against the British. So they compromised.

In any deal between good and evil, evil profits. Ayn Rand said, “In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win.” And so it did. Slavery led to the catastrophic Civil War. Approximately 650,000 Americans died so slaves would be free, to the great honor of this country (something the haters never mention). That horrible wrong was corrected at an unfathomable cost.

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2) Jimmy Carter

Before Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter was easily the most disastrous president this country ever had. Many of the troubles we have today in the Middle East, and the rise of the global jihad, can be attributed to his policies.

Carter began the destabilization of the Middle East and the rollback of secularism there when he betrayed the shah, our great ally in a critical region, and enabled his overthrow at the hands of the bloodthirsty mullahs who established the Islamic Republic of Iran.

That betrayal bore immediate poison fruit with the 1979 hostage crisis, during which Carter dithered impotently and gave to the world an indelible image of American weakness. When the mullahs freed the hostages on Jan. 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated president, they showed the world what they thought of both Carter and his successor.

Imagine if we had backed the shah. Hollywood has churned a number of movies and TV series (Amazon has one right now) imagining what the world would have looked like had the Nazis won. Current reality reflects the inversion of this. Imagine if we had backed the shah – what a wonderful turn for the world. Iran would not be the world’s largest state sponsor of terror. There would be no Hezbollah (an Iranian proxy). The U.S. would have had a staunch ally in the Middle East – a powerful alliance.

Carter lasted only one term, but those terrible four years established that America was not a reliable ally, and would abandon those nations who had been our faithful friends (a precedent Barack Obama has followed many times). In unleashing the mullahs, Carter’s presidency set another precedent as well: It established that America would underestimate, misunderstand and downplay the threat from jihadis and pro-Shariah Islamic supremacists – another precedent Obama has faithfully followed and expanded upon.

3) Barack Obama

Nothing has ever happened to the United States that is worse than the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. A committed Marxist collectivist, he has stood throughout his presidency against that very principle of individual rights that made America great. In abandoning our allies and aligning with the Muslim Brotherhood and other sinister groups, he has aligned with the most evil forces of the 21st century and overturned the order of the world. In abandoning and even actively turning against our allies (most notably Israel), he has made the United States of America, for so long the beacon of freedom in the world, into an untrustworthy ally, a nation that cannot be taken at its word.

We will be paying for Obama’s presidency for decades to come. The full dimensions of the damage he has caused – the gutting of the economy, the new polarization of the races, the Iran nuclear deal and more – is likely only to be known once he is out of office. And America may never recover from this catastrophe.

If it does, however, it will be because it recovered respect for the principle of individual rights. As Reagan once said, “With all its flaws, American remains a unique achievement for human dignity on a scale unequaled anywhere in the world.” That is still true. The shining city on the hill can shine again. But at this point, that will take a massive change in our political and media culture.

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8 years ago

“If it does, however, it will be because it recovered respect for the principle of individual rights. As Reagan once said, “With all its flaws, American remains a unique achievement for human dignity on a scale unequaled anywhere in the world.” That is still true. The shining city on the hill can shine again. But at this point, that will take a massive change in our political and media culture.”

I doubt. Not with this generation of millenial whiners and idiots.

1stbabyboomer
1stbabyboomer
8 years ago

You forgot what the Kennedys did, Teddy to be exact, that changed the color of all immigrants allowed into America in the 60s. That alone changed our country forever.

Budvarakbar
Budvarakbar
8 years ago
Reply to  1stbabyboomer

He was just a front man stooge for Jacob Javits – NY Senator
But a stoogle and class AAA a$$hole anyway

El Cid
El Cid
8 years ago

I share your disdain for Jimmy Carter, mostly for recent stupidities. However, when I bring up Iran, people remind me of the Egypt/Jordan/Israel agreement which has remained in place for decades.

What’s your take? (Or readers).

Budvarakbar
Budvarakbar
8 years ago
Reply to  El Cid

Don’t forget giving away the Panama Canal and importing the Mariel Boatlift — ever wonder how many Cubans settled in Plains, GA?

Michael McLaughlin
Michael McLaughlin
8 years ago

I will only say this in defense of Jimmy Carter..yes, he was a terrible president, yes he made all the worst possible decisions…but it came from a place of being incredibly humble and naive. Carter was very much a Christian of the “turn the other cheek” mindset (as I recall his sister was ‘born again’) In the 1970’s…specifically 1976, the gays and abortion lobbies were quite literally in their infancy…Roe vs. Wade was just a few years back, and Homosexuality was slowly being seen by the psychiatric community as a ‘lifestyle’ instead of a mental illness. It was easy to be a ‘social justice’ christian in the 70’s of the ‘feed the hungry, build shelters for the homeless’ type. Carter’s personal Christianity made him see the world in a moral light which was ill suited for the global stage…so yes he did terrible things, but his ‘heart was in the right place’ — compare that to Barack Obama, a man who hates the United States and all that it stands for. Obama approaches his decisions thinking that America is the greatest evil in the world and needs to be ‘removed’ from the equation, and if Carters humility made him a patsy its nothing compared to the arrogance of Obama, which has him ‘ruling’ us with decree’s instead of leading.

wilypagan
wilypagan
8 years ago

Yes, it is a lot better being gay in the US today than it used to be, even though I, for one, would trade “gay marriage” in a NY minute to get my country back. We should all receive equal pension and tax benefits whether we are gay or straight couples, maybe through civil unions, but heterosexuals need a special institution to encourage them to stay together to raise their children. I think it is the right of the child to be brought up by their mom and dad.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
8 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

Another “special institution”? Seriously?

wilypagan
wilypagan
8 years ago
Reply to  Pray Hard

Yup.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
8 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

Islam will be rolling back women’s and gay rights…right back to the Dark Ages.

logic person
logic person
8 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

So do you support islamic state? If someone is against gay marriage he is supporter of islamists. Gay marriage is strong opposition to taliban. I’m conservative catholic and I support gay marriage and I’m strong opponent of islamic mind. Taliban is supporter of abortion and is against gay marriage. I’m opponent of abortion and pro marriage equality.

wilypagan
wilypagan
8 years ago
Reply to  logic person

I support recognition of gay relationships, but believe that a child should be raised by its biological mother and father in the monogamous state of Holy Matrimony. Catholic doctrine states that Holy Matrimony is one man, one woman. Do you really need a wily pagan to tell you this?

Michael McLaughlin
Michael McLaughlin
8 years ago
Reply to  logic person

That’s why as a conservative republican, I fully support gay rights…I see it as the ‘canary in the coal mine’ to prevent us from being converted into a Sharia compliant state…mind you, I currently am opposed to Gay Marriage…not because I don’t like the institution (even tho I’m not a fan of it) but because the Supreme Court chose to make it legal by ‘decree’ and I disagree with a government that can ‘give’ you rights…once you fall into that trap, the government can start taking them away. For me the best case scenario is for laws to be passed solidifying the institution of gay marriage, while at the same time removing from the government the ability to ‘license’ what should be a personal compact between two consenting adults.

HOVARD
HOVARD
8 years ago
Reply to  logic person

BOTH ARE WRONG IF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. AMERICA WHERE NOT CREATED FOR SODOMITES.

vlparker
vlparker
8 years ago

Sorry, I’m not buying what you’re selling. Carter was, and is, a committed socialist and anti-semite. He also never met a communist dictator that he didn’t like.

DowntotheBone
DowntotheBone
8 years ago
Reply to  vlparker

Yup.
He has more clearly shown his meanness and destructiveness since he (mercifully) left office.

Michael McLaughlin
Michael McLaughlin
8 years ago
Reply to  vlparker

I’m not ‘selling’ anything, nor am I ‘apologizing’ for Carter…I’m just saying he is/was a naive bleeding heart liberal (the kind where if mugged hands over the wallet saying that he deserves to have his wealth shared), wheras Obama is a Left Wing Marxist Anti-Colonialist (The kind who would say a black man mugging a white man is justified to ‘payback’ colonialism and white privilege)

Maranatha
Maranatha
8 years ago

…but a destroyer by all accounts.
..

DowntotheBone
DowntotheBone
8 years ago
Reply to  Maranatha

Definitely.

MIlwaukee
MIlwaukee
8 years ago

Jimmy Carter shot dead his neighbor’s cat.

HOVARD
HOVARD
8 years ago

BUT CARTER WAS THE ROOT OF THE EVIL AND STILL ARE HE ARE NOT MUCH OF A CHRISTIAN WHEN IT COMES TO ISRAEL TOY HELP PALESTINIANS I MEAN FAKE STANIANS TO PUSH YEWS OUT OF THEIR COUNTRY WITCH YEWS LEAVED ON FOR MORE THAN 5000 YEARS. HOW I SEE IT IS CRTER ARE A SLIMY LIBOCRAP LIKE ALL OTHER LIBOCRAPS.

LaTisha Jackson
LaTisha Jackson
8 years ago

Well, both are kai-gee-bee plants that were trained and paid to destroy this country, but it WILL COLLAPSE anyway…reason? COMFORT. Everything else is a subsequence…COMFORT KILLS…see the coastal parasitocracy? Already dead…Hollywood? Wall Street? 12,000 lawyers? Russian plants in Congresss? Everywhere…Comfort KILLS the soul, and without the soul (spirit) you will be dead soon. Wanna try it? Get TOTALLY comfortable, and soon you will be producing genetic garbage…Imagine a hospital run bu the nurses and volunteers? Will you want to be treated there? No? How come you listen to the philistines (common people) and don’t listen to the professional truth hunters? Oh, but for that you have to recognize the opposites: Superior vs Inferior, Creators vs Philistines, Productive vs the Unproductive, Comfort-based civilization vs Suffering-based civilizations…High-quality people (and nations) vs Low quality people (and nations)…etc…without the Spiritual Guides NO civilization will EVER survive for long…without the gods all will die…this country was godless from day one…Major League Creators and Distributors of Products of Spirit (Arts, Philisophy), i.e. Gods never existed here…How will the narrow Specialists know the truth?

wilypagan
wilypagan
8 years ago

Individual rights are hanging by a thread. Our Bill of Rights has been destroyed by the RINOs and their traitorous cohorts in the Dem party. They are just waiting for an uprising to allow them to begin confiscations. Stay calm and don’t take the bait. Vote them all out next election. NO TO ALL INCUMBANTS!

McCabe
McCabe
8 years ago

Lyndon Baines Johnson is right up there.

Donnie Newell
Donnie Newell
8 years ago

Great article pamela

lostlegends
lostlegends
8 years ago

Abortion was biggest mistake number 2. We are covered in the blood of the unborn and the born, and wear their chopped up body parts as our badge of evil.

logic person
logic person
8 years ago
Reply to  lostlegends

Yes abortion, drugs and tobbacco are the worst things in my opinion. And of course to much drink alcohol is very bad. I never use drugs, tobbacco and of course never killed human. I think the most important think is to have sober mind and have got respect to my and other people lives. This is way which I come.

conan_drum
conan_drum
8 years ago
Reply to  lostlegends

You may be surprised to know that abortion has existed since the beginning of the human race, as well as infanticide. Many women died as a consequence

80sFan
80sFan
8 years ago

Sorry, Pamela, I just cannot agree with this article. Your portrayal of the Civil War leaves out far too many elements, and simply regurgitates the revisionist history that is taught today. You left out one of the truly disastrous things, the adoption of the 17th Amendment that was a critical step in stripping power away from the states. Another was allowing our central bank to be controlled by private and non-American interests. I have heard and seen some good things from and about you, but this article fails to live up to the bar you and others have set for ‘the Pamela Geller’.

80sFan
80sFan
8 years ago
Reply to  80sFan

Lincoln was an abolitionist, that is true. However, I’m referring to the political-economic causes of the civil war. Slavery was the stalking horse, nothing more.

80sFan
80sFan
8 years ago
Reply to  80sFan

There was a general acceptance, even in the deep South, that slavery was no longer a viable institution in the mid-19th century. However, even the plantation owners knew that to free the slaves all at once would cause an economic collapse, just as well as did the Northern politicians. Keep in mind that the Emancipation Proclamation was not signed into law until well after the commencement of hostilities. The goal of the Northern politicians was to break the burgeoning Southern economic and political power. As I said, slavery was nothing more than the stalking horse.

80sFan
80sFan
8 years ago
Reply to  80sFan

The issue was this: Congress passed legislation saying that the Southern states had to free all of their slaves – just the Southern states. As I’ve already pointed out, they knew that releasing all the slaves at once would cause an economic collapse, because the slaves, once freed, would be unable to provide for themselves. As I understand it, there were a variety of plans and options for how to gradually phase out slavery to deal with that problem. The Southern states recognized this legislation for what it was – an attack on their state’s economies and sovereignty. They went back and forth with Congress, but to no avail. Ultimately, in an attempt to protect themselves, they decided to secede from the Union in an exercise of State’s Rights. As you pointed out, Lincoln was a Unionist, and saw it as his job to keep the Union together, so he responded with force, and the rest, as they say, is history. And, as you notice, most of the deep South economies are still among the poorest in the nation, because they’ve never recovered.

80sFan
80sFan
8 years ago
Reply to  80sFan

Apparently not. Maybe he never anticipated secession? Edit: Secession started before he took office, with S. Carolina. Something interesting from PBS “President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about slavery or black rights; it was a war to preserve the Union.” http://www.pbs. org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html

Jack
Jack
8 years ago
Reply to  80sFan

Some of the New England states attempted secession before the War of Northern Aggression.

GeneP54
GeneP54
8 years ago
Reply to  80sFan

Actually, he was for colonization. Read about it, and read the FIRST draft of the Emacipation Proclamation. If Lincoln (and most of the North) had had his way, all black would been deported. The South, (and only about 5% of Southerners owned slaves, some of those were black, themselves) was already in the process of freeing slaves. It wasn’t practical. You have to go back further than Lincoln to understand the War Between the States.
(It makes no sense for it to be about slavery with so few owning slaves. in the North, however, slavery was much more common, but they don’t wnat you to know about that)

vlparker
vlparker
8 years ago
Reply to  80sFan

Baloney. Slavery was the cause. Four of the confederate states ratified documents that stated their reason for seceeding. They all said it was because of slavery. Not to mention Alexander Stephens’ “Cornerstone speech”.

But then the plantation owners had a problem. How to motivate the average Joe Schlub to go fight their war for them. Thus all the nonsense about state’s rights and economic causes. The only state right the southern plantation owners were worried about was the right to have slaves.

There were no laws preventing the southern states from building factories and engaging in the same economic activities that made the northern states profitable and powerful. They chose an agrarian system run by slave labor and they had no one to blame for their economic position but themselves.

80sFan
80sFan
8 years ago
Reply to  vlparker

You’re certainly entitled to keep believing whatever you were spoon fed in school. However, I find it telling that “President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about slavery or black
rights; it was a war to preserve the Union.” http://www.pbs.
org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html

Edit: Perhaps you should review the remainder of the ‘Cornerstone Speech’ yourself. In it, Mr. Stephens clearly mentions the wealth of the South and the favoring of industry over agriculture, as well as the undue burden being placed on the southern states for the ‘progressive’ expansion and construction projects.

vlparker
vlparker
8 years ago
Reply to  80sFan

Excerpt from Alexander Stephen’s Cornerstone Speech:

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical and moral truth.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/south_secede/south_secede_menu.cfm

The belief that southerners in the mid 1800s believed that slavery was no longer viable is fantasy. These Democrats were not going to let it go no matter what. Even 100 years later the Democrat politicians Faubus, Maddox and Wallace were still having dreams about the good old days of slavery.

80sFan
80sFan
8 years ago
Reply to  vlparker

I can see your viewpoint, even though I don’t share it. There were some that believed then, and even still believe now, in a distinction between the races (which, by the way, I don’t subscribe to). There appears to be a growing segregationist movement from non-whites today. I don’t believe that the belief was in the institution of slavery, but more of a belief in a manifest distinction in the separation of the races and the roles of each in order to coexist. Either way, the south knew that freeing all the slaves at one time would cause an economic collapse, which was the goal, and did in fact occur.

Here’s the last few sentences of the paragraph before your excerpt, lest it be taken out of context:

The prevailing ideas entertained by [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the “storm came and the wind blew.”

jon
jon
8 years ago
Reply to  80sFan

Lincoln also killed many POW’s after the war was over. I do not like Lincoln for that.

MICHAEL
MICHAEL
8 years ago

Slavery, Native American genocide and nuclear bombardment in Japan

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
8 years ago
Reply to  MICHAEL

Do you even have a clue who captured, provided and sold the slaves to mean old whitey? Yes, we treated the NA’s very badly, but they were not perfect in any sense. Furthermore, it was going to happen eventually anyway. Most died from disease. It was what it was. It’s over. Harping on it changes nothing.Yes, I’ve read thousands of pages of NA history. And you would have preferred to end WWII how?

DowntotheBone
DowntotheBone
8 years ago
Reply to  Pray Hard

“Yes, we treated the NA’s very badly,…”

Correct.

“… but they were not perfect in any sense.”

Also correct.

The American Indian (I was born in the U.S., and consider myself a native American) tribes used to war upon and kill each other before the Europeans came.
Which of the tribes was “worse” or “better” than which of the others?

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
8 years ago
Reply to  MICHAEL

Japan refused to surrender. Even AFTER the 1st nuclear bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima. Even though the fat lady had clearly already sung.
Japan was going to fight to the last bamboo spear. Japan started WW2. Why should another hundred thousand GI’s die invading Japan and G-d knows how many Japanese when nuclear weapons could be employed?
Maybe you can cry to the million or so Chinese slaughtered by the forces of Imperial Japan — incl. those used for medical experiments to create biological weapons.

vlparker
vlparker
8 years ago

I would put the 100 year long snooze of liberty loving patriots, starting in the early 20th century, while socialists took over every government, education and media institution one of the top three biggest mistakes. This led directly to our uneducated, PC culture.

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
8 years ago
Reply to  vlparker

Communists!

Maranatha
Maranatha
8 years ago

Mistake No 4:

Allow unscreened immigrants all the way back to slavery times.
I will say no more.
..

Maranatha
Maranatha
8 years ago

Mistake no. 4:

Allow unscreened immigrants all the way back to black slavery…
just imagine a Judeo-Christian country…
Black people ,and the others, are not happy this side of the Ocean…
..

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
8 years ago

I’d say there was no point in backing the Shah. The Shah wasn’t even in Iran when the Islamic Revolution happened because he was busy dying of cancer. The Shah should’ve appointed a successor.

Lia
Lia
8 years ago

Another very serious mistake, was the dumbing down of the USA. In March 1951 a school principal, (Leuchner, I think, his surname was) addressed the National Meeting of School Principals & explained that they were on their way to be rid of the 3 R’s, because not ever child could or would learn to read, or write or figure. He made it sound absolutely logical, just as not every boy could be expected to play the violin, nor every girl be expected to bake a perfect cherry pie. Unfortunately I cannot find the speech anywhere (have tried Google). Does anybody have a reference for us? I believe that raising a few generations of non-educated Americans, made much of what is happening now possible.

logic person
logic person
8 years ago

I think that america is the biggest liar and anti human rights country in the world. Americans:
kill millions of indians and took them to small pieces of land
made tobbaccco which is one of the biggest evil in the world
very hard persecute black people, catholics, native americans, homosexuals and few other groups
with power of two nuclear bombs killed big number of Japans
made a lot of conflicts
American society is one of the most stupid in the world
In USA nearly half of people use drug once or more in their life(marihuana, heroin, cocaine, or other).
The cruelty in Vietnam.
The biggest producer of pollution in the world.

America is the worst agressor of the world.

Frank Castle
Frank Castle
8 years ago
Reply to  logic person

What about the Romans?
What about the British?
What about the Mongols?
What about the Vandals?
What about the Huns?
What about the Barbary States?
What about the Vikings?
What about the Spanish?

I could go on and on but I won’t. Many of these empires/peoples have done very horrific things but they didn’t change. The USA did.
The Native Americans were killed, true, but also many are living much better due to Casino gambling. Also, many of their traditions are honored and studied.
The Native Americans introduced Tobacco to the White European settlers. In the USA, tobacco use has dramatically fallen over the last several decades with more education.

Blacks have been treated badly all over the planet and in Africa, they sold their fellow Blacks into slavery which wasn’t just an American thing but also a big part of the Arab economy. Slavery was still legal in Saudi Arabia until 1970.
Catholics were some of the most racist people on the planet a few hundred years back (I know, I’m Catholic….it’s not a good thing of course) Yes, the Protestants were hostile to Papists, as they used to call them but Catholics also accepted Blacks into their churches while others did not.
Homosexuals have been treated poorly all over the globe. Look at Russia today.
Yes, we dropped two Atomic bombs on Japan and saved thousands of American lives. Japan is also an ally of the USA today.
Yes, America has been in quite a few wars. I think the English, French, Spanish, Germans, Russians, Romans, Ottomans, Chinese, and several others have got us beat. Also, America helped save the West in WWI and WWII which stopped the Central and Axis powers of those wars.
Vietnam had cruelty on both sides of the conflict.
The USA has done more to clean up the earth than any other country. Our air is much cleaner than 50 years ago and many endangered species have grown in numbers and now thrive. Bald Eagles are becoming a common sight ago and the Wild Turkey is very numerous.
I doubt America is the worst aggressor of the world.
Oh, you have the freedom to say the things you do in America. If you tried this against certain other countries in the world, you would be silenced and maybe killed. So, enjoy your freedom of expression, ok!

stealth4
stealth4
8 years ago

Obama has caused more problems to our society than Hitler or Stalin–they didn’t destroy America: Obama is doing so. And citizens do nothing because it would not be PC to impeach, incarcerate. or mental -hospitalize an African-American President.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
8 years ago

Three biggest mistakes: 1) Liberal brain washed colleges 2) George Soros is still alive 3) White liberal Catholics who voted in Obama.

conan_drum
conan_drum
8 years ago

Sorry Pamela you have forgotten that the Shah was a dying man and even the best US medicine could not save him. We do not know what his successor might have been like. Remember he only came to the throne when his father was deposed by a joint Anglo/Russian intervention during WW2. He did not have the support of the clergy and was losing support of the working classes, so all in all not a promising situation at all.

Gdsrzx
Gdsrzx
8 years ago

100% agree Pam !

Москалi, геть з Криму!
Москалi, геть з Криму!
8 years ago

But George Washington had slaves…So did Thomas Jefferson.

peter jacob
peter jacob
8 years ago

The biggest mistake America ever made was embracing greed in all its forms and increasingly polarizing rich and poor .

donemyhomework
donemyhomework
8 years ago

On the money.

Agent153Orange
Agent153Orange
8 years ago

First and foremost, slavery was a demographic catastrophe for America!

RTR Truth Media
RTR Truth Media
8 years ago

While you constantly invoke the founders into your diatribe, the amazing thing is that you are “cherry picking” details they stood for while IGNORING many others such as their non interventionalist policies. Jefferson warned us about entangling alliances. Strictly against it. Israel (the country) is a foreign nation which has spied upon and been involved in serious covert ops against the United States. This is NOT the behavior of allies or friends. This occurred under George Bush’s watch, NOT Obama’ s. As far as “American Exceptionalism” with what we know about the usurpation of the 14th Amendment being forced at gunpoint, and the criminal international banking cartel of the Rothschild/Rockefeller/JPMorgan variety took is the rest of the way in 1913 with the unConstitutional Federal Reserve, and the Bankruptcy of 33. These criminals have defrauded the American people and everything just as Jefferson and Franklin said would happen, has happened. The “moneyed incorporations” as he called them have risen up also via special interests and political lobbies ( empowered by 14th Amendmrnt jurisdiction ) amazing you would mention the South and slavery as if it was a racial and not an economic as well as being an immoral institution which it was. But you also keep from the public the fact that the Babylonian Talmud, and the Noahide laws and Talmudic Courts which were recognized and read into the Senate record as being the foundation (IT IS NOT) of our laws….. The Bible (KJV) is as it is what the Magna Carta is based. As well as our Republic. Many other Conservative Christians dont know any better. They do not realize the Communist / Socialist basis Israel (the Corporate State – not the Biblical people – the two are NOT as synonymous as many believe. It is simply a difference in ideology. Real (unindoctrinated Christians) KNOW the Pharisees and what Jesus called the “Traditions of man” or the Oral Talmud was the perversion of supremacy and that all non Jews existed to serve them or die as Goyim. Why do you insist upon the fusion of loyalty to a state that spies on us, uses us as proxy army to fight its wars (ASSAD-HUSSEIN-QUADAFFI) etc, who were not a direct threat to US National Security. Not to mention it was the CIA that overthrew the democratically elected leader in Iran replacing him with a IS PUPPET that tortured and created a stasi like police force that brutalized their people for decades CAUSING EXTREMISTS TO RISE UP AND TAKE IT BACK !!! The United States meddling in these matters CREATED the problem we now face and you want to see that as exceptional? We WERE exceptional before 1868…… After that black, white, rich and poor have been manipulated by criminals of both the financial and political variety. A national debt that is fraud in and of itself! Either be the solution or stop. Blanket support for any….. ANY OTHER FOREIGN NATION IS THE ANTI-THESIS OF WHAT OUR FOUNDERS STOOD FOR

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