Required reading for those who have forgotten how to love their country
The comment thread for the post below, on Baghdad’s New Year celebration somehow morphed, as BN threads often do, into a debate about the aboriginal peoples who populated the Americas prior to the arrival of the Europeans, and their interaction with those Europeans. I’m going to let this Michael Medved Townhall column from last September, “Reject the Lie of White Genocide Against Native Americans,” be the definitive BN word on the subject.
January 6th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Another kind commentator from the right. Generally I listen to Medved and admire his intelligence, candor and insights. More than mere genocide was the obliteration of cultures he dismisses as struggling Stone Age societies. Much was lost forever, but, again nothing new there, with libraries burned throughout history and, of course, blood shed by conquests. When what we have been led to is such a state of continued paranoia and fear over weaponry that can waste the entire planet and continued fighting over ideology and truth ( Will the real God please step forward?) Guess I am still trying to be a part of that City on the Hill.
Rather than ” nation ashamed of its past will fear its future,” we must remember that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Or, a nation unflinchingly aware of its past can mend its future. In my view, we are all God’s creations here. Be still and know…..
January 6th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
No thanks either for implying that this commentator has forgotten how to love his country.
I’ve moved beyond that to a more universal love. That path leads nowhere to winners and losers, a narrowing rather than a broadening. The path I walk is a broad highway. Yet I hope to fit through the eye of the needle and hep bring as many as I can with me. As many as I am granted strength to….