Why do we hate ourselves so much?

Okay, so I know I've been absent for almost 11 months now, but maybe I'll get started back to doing this on a regular basis. I need the practice writing at the very least.

I came across a piece by Michael Barone the Instapundit linked to a couple of weeks ago that caught my attention, mainly because he was stating the obvious on a subject many willingly ignore: "The Blame-America-First Crowd"

I recommend you read the whole thing, but here's an excerpt:

What they have been denied in their higher education is an accurate view of history and America's place in it. Many adults actively seek what they have been missing: witness the robust sales of books on the Founding Fathers. Witness, also, the robust sales of British historian Andrew Roberts's splendid "History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900."

Roberts points out almost all the advances of freedom in the 20th century have been made by the English-speaking peoples -- Americans especially, but British, as well, and also (here his account will be unfamiliar to most American readers) Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders. And he recalls what held and holds them together by quoting a speech Winston Churchill gave in 1943 at Harvard: "Law, language, literature -- these are considerable factors. Common conceptions of what is right and decent, a marked regard for fair play, especially to the weak and poor, a stern sentiment of impartial justice and above all a love of personal freedom ... these are the common conceptions on both sides of the ocean among the English-speaking peoples."
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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
-W. L. George
(from The Quotations Page)

-the Progressive Conservative