Society Becomes How You Behave.

In The End, A New Americanization Movement Can't Just Be About Listing Our Privileges And Immunities, Which We Catalog In Our Laws. It Also Has To Be About Reinforcing Our Duties, Which We Convey In Our Habits.

Six Decades Ago, As Mao's Communists Seized Power, The Question In Washington Was, 'who Lost China?' Now, As His Capitalist Descendants Stand Astride The World Stage And Washington Worries About Decline, It Seems To Be, 'who Lost America?'

America Is Exceptional: But Because It Yields The Likes Of Obama, Not The Likes Of Bush.

The Next Time Someone Uses Denial Of Citizenship As A Weapon Or Brandishes The Special Status Conferred Upon Him By The Accident Of Birth, Ask Him This: What Have You Done Lately To Earn It?

As It Stands Now, Those Of Us Who Are Lucky Enough To Be Citizens By Birth Don't Have To Do Much. Very Little Is Asked Of Us.