By Gad Saad

       Throughout my academic life, one pseudo-intellectual reality has never ceased to amaze me. It would seem that to be a self-respecting American progressive, you must adopt the affectations of cultural self-hate. According to many "liberal" academics, the United States is to blame for nearly every conceivable global ill that has ever taken place.  Many of the older American academics with Marxist leanings have never been able to digest the genocides that were afflicted by Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung on their respective people. The real evildoers though are the American capitalist pigs."  I am not kidding! Some "progressives" have even questioned the military involvement of the United States in WWII. Pacifism would certainly have defeated the Allied Axis much more humanely than the brutality of the American military-industrial complex. Nice! The weak-minded and tortuous logic let alone the intellectual dishonesty are hallucinatory. 

Show me a country that does not doggedly pursue its self-interests and I'll show you pigs that fly. However, I do believe that the United States stands for a set of universal ideals that has illuminated the world. Within the pantheon of moral and altruisticcivilizations, it is difficult to argue against the preeminent position that the United States would hold in any such ranking. One wonders why otherwise the world's populace has always sought to gain entry into the United States. 

In the warped world of the Ivory Tower, to be pro-American in one's geopolitical orientation is viewed with derision. No "progressive" academic should ever be caught displaying shameless and "vulgar" patriotism. Every American reader whose eyes are scrolling these words should think about the plight of billions of people around the world who do not have the freedoms that he/she takes for granted.