Why America Will Stay on Top

WHY WE(’ll) WIN Eminent historian Paul Johnson on Sarah Palin, the tea party, and 'baddies' from Napoleon to Gadhafi.

Okay, we're having tough times. but they're of our own making.  Johnson, at age 80, is perhaps the most eminent living British historian.  He sees strengths that we perhaps overlook, but that doesn't mean they've evaporated. “   "Of course I worry about America," he says. "The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America—a marvelous country. But in a sense I don't worry about America because I think America has such huge strengths—particularly its freedom of thought and expression—that it's going to survive as a top nation for the foreseeable future. And therefore take care of the world. [...] The former governor of Alaska, he says, "is in the good tradition of America, which this awful political correctness business goes against." Plus: "She's got courage. That's very important in politics. You can have all the right ideas and the ability to express them. But if you haven't got guts, if you haven't got courage the way Margaret Thatcher had courage—and [Ronald] Reagan, come to think of it. Your last president had courage too—if you haven't got courage, all the other virtues are no good at all. It's the central virtue." ” Let's recapture that old American spirit - "CAN DO," and "KILL A COMMIE FOR CHRIST!"