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March 12, 2010
No more exceptions
Conrad Black makes a number of corrections to Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru. There are a very few times when a view of American history makes more sense when seen from north of the border. This is one of those times.
The authors write: “We are a nation of Franklins.” I don’t think so. Franklin was the principal architect of one of the greatest triumphs of statesmanship in modern history: America’s enlistment of Britain to evict France from Canada and of France to eject Britain from America, without which the colonists would not have won the Revolutionary War. America’s precocious manipulation of the world’s two greatest powers was brilliant, but not exactly heroic.
That said, Black is concerned about America's heroic mythology largely insofar as it exacerbates America's current problems; read the whole thing.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 12, 2010 07:53 AM
