The Indispensable Nation

The United Kingdom gave us the Magna Carta and Shakespeare but that was long ago, and Britain has not done much since, except lose an empire and fail to win any significant wars without help. France produced ballet and some pretty good eating, but without the assistance of a particular country, would be a province of Germany today. Germany produced fierce fighters and good beer, but made my relatives (as I am Jewish) into soap and lampshades, and would have done similarly nasty things to us all had one particular nation not stood to block its path. That one country that has consistently paid the price for freedom is the United States of America, without which the world would suffer under despotism and darkness.