As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.
Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.