America, Just Be Yourself
10/6/2004
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WALL ST JOURNAL
America, Just Be Yourself
Standing for our principles is more important than being loved.
October 6, 2004
By Claudia Rosette
"America addressed the earth: Do you love me as I love you?"
--W.H. Auden, "In Time of War"
Auden wrote those lines in 1938, on the eve of World War II, and in them he
summed up one of the basic traits of the American character. More than most,
we want to be liked. Maybe that's because we are naive, or absurdly
romantic.
