Kathleen Parker, the most widely syndicated columnist in America, starts out her most recent column with "If our enemies don't hate us, it's an oversight."
Turns out we're a bunch of narcissists, and Parker, who, multiple times a week, writes down and sends her personal thoughts out to tens of millions of people, think that's bad. But you see this fairly often: With Parker, and D'Souza, and large swaths of the Christian Right. There are a lot of people in America who really don't like America, and for much the same reason that they think Osama bin-Laden doesn't like America.
Now, in reality, bin-Laden doesn't like America, as he repeatedly tell us, because of its foreign policy actions in the Muslim world, but insofar as he also finds our freedoms distasteful, so too do some on the right. I don't know if I'd go so far as Francis Fukuyama does when he says "what we see today on the global stage is in some sense an extension of America's own culture wars," but it certainly looks like many conservatives agree with him, and have resolved the cognitive dissonance by deciding our cultural degradation is the product of tricky liberals and Hollywood gays, and not genuinely part of America at all.
