Loss of Self-Control Leads to Crashed Standing

by Monica Smith [courtesy of Blog for America]

Any number of presidential candidates have promoted the idea that the moral standing of the United States in the world community is in dire need of being re-established. However, few have mentioned any particular actions they would take to accomplish that goal. Perhaps that’s because they haven’t really thought through what brought about the sudden collapse of the moral authority which the United States enjoyed after World War II.

It seems pretty clear, in retrospect, that the country which earned the respect of other nations was one which said what it was going to do and then did it. From stopping totalitarianism to sending men to the moon, the United States set goals and then achieved them. No longer. Ever since Ronald Reagan, the United States has taken to telling other nations what to do, while conditions at home were allowed to deteriorate.