America discovered that technology is power. “If in doubt, do something,” has been the American ‘can do’ stance. The American credo focused on what it can do. The American did not spend time figuring and lamenting what s/he could not do. A tour de force in social analysis, he provided two holding images of American Civilization.
In the ‘50s, Max Lerner asked, “What makes America more than simply the congeries of individual will and appetites but a civilization?” His learned answer was a tomé titled America as a Civilization. President Bush’s recent speech on the War in Iraq called on the nation’s patriotism to remain firm and committed to what may be a long haul in establishing democracy and freedom in the land between the two rivers. He admitted during one of our school assemblies that for the first time, he could sing the national anthem in a manner that made his hair stand on end and his heartbeat drum faster. He is one of the so-called “stateless” children whose civil status was of great controversy not too long ago. Young Alex Mercado at SVES just got his U.S.
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