Last comments from Dennis Prager

I have been putting comments here from Dennis Prager's book Still the Best Hope. Here's the last section of quotations:

1. Americans who believe in American exceptionalism do not have a high moral regard for the United Nations, do not trust the World Court more than American institutions, regard Amnesty International as a morally confused left-wing organization, recognize the biases of the world's news media, do not share Hollywood's values, and regard "world opinion" as morally useless.

2. If "good" means more or less perfect or flawless, America's not good. But America is good in the three ways the word matters: in comparison with other countries, especially historically powerful ones; in all the good it has done for the great majority of those were born in or came to America; and with regard to all the good it has done, at tremendous cost, for vast numbers of people in other countries.

3. If there was no America, Islamists would take over many Muslim-majority countries, free Taiwan would be overrun by the communist regime in China, Iran and other Islamic states would seek to annihilate free Israel, tyrants throughout Africa would be emboldened, the United Nations would become even more so than today a tool of anti-democratic regimes, the non-democratic regime ruling Russia would increasingly suppress liberty in Russia, and Latin American countries struggling to create democratic institutions would be subverted by anti-democratic regimes.

I have used several blogs to cover this important book. But I can't do justice to it in the brief quotations I have posted here. You owe it to yourself to take a look at the book.