More Romney, I’m afraid. But this is less about him than it concerns a general American trend. Daniel Larison has already touched on how Romney seems to share Fred Thompson’s odd belief in the uniquely generous nature of American military sacrifice. This reminds me that I’d meant to comment upon this passage from Romney’s speech:
“Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. No people in the history of the world have sacrificed as much for liberty. The lives of hundreds of thousands of America’s sons and daughters were laid down during the last century to preserve freedom, for us and for freedom loving people throughout the world. America took nothing from that Century’s terrible wars – no land from Germany or Japan or Korea; no treasure; no oath of fealty.”
Oh please. To listen to this you might think the United States’ sole concern was that the people of Europe and, for that matter, south-east asia, had a proper supply of apple pie.
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