CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (David Wurmser) - The New Jerusalem and the New Rome- a journey to discover America’s soul
As the United States celebrates its birthday, no less its quarter-millennium mark, I am driven...
As the United States celebrates its birthday, no less its quarter-millennium mark, I am driven to consider what this nation means from my perspective. And that perspective is shaped by the forces that shaped who I am: my Judaism, the journey of my mother from communist Czechoslovakia, and the mundane life of a young kid growing up in the suburbs of a blue-collar, East Coast American city. An American childhood The late 1960s, when I gained awareness of the society around me, was still a deeply patriotic world in the suburbs. Yes, we saw the images on TV of Vietnam, and we had our moments. I remember sitting on the porch of my parents’ home as a seven-year-old seeing the glow on the horizon as Baltimore burned in the 1968 riots.…Open