3 biggest
mistakes America ever made, Exclusive:
Pamela Geller warns that nation 'may never recover from catastrophe' by Pamela
Geller, 11/30/15, WND
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.
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 than 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.
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.
Pamela Geller’s commitment to
freedom from jihad and Shariah shines forth in her books – featured at the WND
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