My beef with American arrogance is not that we act like a traditional great power, occasionally knocking off foreign bad guys who richly deserve it. My problem is that we don't know when to stop--the trivial victories we insist on having in arenas that are quite superfluous...like victories in women's hockey (2002 with a score USA-12, China-1). I say we keep the big ones for ourselves (laser guided munitions, Google, Warren Buffet for example). Let the rest of the world have ice hockey, ballroom dancing, all the Nobel Prizes, and the Ryder Cup.
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Charles Krauthammer is a man of humility who epitomizes the integrity of work and knowledge.
Excerpt thanks to "Things That Matter" (Charles Krauthammer 2006)
Someone might take this the wrong way and assume Krauthammer is arrogant. You ought to clarify.
If they read the book, humility will ring clear. I admire C.K.
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