Walls Come Tumbling Down

...America was founded in large part by those seeking to make it “a city on a hill.” Its motto was “in God we trust.” Now judges rule that we can safely retain this motto without infringing on anyone’s rights precisely because we really don’t mean it. America once exported democracy. Now it exports “Desperate Housewives.” When I travel around the world and tell people that I’m from Dallas, their faces light up. Even if they can’t speak English, they manage to smile and exclaim “J.R.!”

Many assume America will last forever. But there were soldiers manning Hadrian’s wall for more years than a US president has occupied the White House. We are not invulnerable, as September 11th and Katrina have reminded us. If we continue to yield sour grapes, our walls too will indeed come tumbling down...