America, then and now

THEN:
As the ships of the depleted US Navy approached what would become Ironbottom Sound, between Savo Island, Tulagi and Guadalcanal for the invasion, 8/6/1942:

Here is Col Clifton Cates, the dapper commander of 1st Marines, who has been to the wars, who has been gassed in the trenches in France, and who has had honors bestowed upon him for being among the bravest of the brave at Belleau Wood. His words are in a sober, sobering vein: “We’re fighting for a just cause, there is no doubt about that. It is for right and freedom. We have enjoyed the many advantages given us under our form of government and, with the help of God, we will guarantee that same liberty and free­dom to our loved ones and the people of America for generations to come." 

Now:

“When American history is told by the winners, by white people who were in charge, it looks one way,” said Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former senior State Department official in the Obama administration. “When American history is told by people who are every bit as patriotic, but who saw a different side, of course it is going to change.”

There are some words to die with or fight for, and here are some more:

“The core fact — and this is a fact — is that military power alone will not heal what has been unleashed,” said Samantha Power, Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations. “That’s not humility. It’s pragmatism.”

And the ‘long march through the institutions‘ has finally yielded this:

70% of U.S. adults agree “the world would be a better place if Americans acknowledged America’s shortcomings”
General Social Survey

Funny, I thought WE ALWAYS DID. Is there a bigger mea culpa than, for instance, 600,000 Union casualties form 1861-65?
THEN:

R Reagan-a Vietnamese boat person who had flagged down a Navy vessel in the South China Sea several years earlier. “Hello, American sailor,” the refugee cried out to his rescuer. “Hello, freedom man!”

NOW:

“Those who only understand exceptionalism as preserving the past; who deny our faults or inequality; who say love it or leave it; those are the people who are afraid,” Obama said, according to Keenan’s notes. “Those are the people who think America is some fragile thing.”

Mr. Obama you have managed to demonstrate in a VERY short time how fragile the IDEA of this place is, especially the UNIFYING idea of E Pluribus Unum.
You were elected the 1st non white person to be president. And you took your ideology, rooted in your contempt for private property (which isolated, is UNDERSTANDABLE) and used it to divide the people in every way you could.

So understand this, the same idea you encompassed above, in a more AMERICAN VISION - it is NOT America which has faults and inequality, it is HUMAN NATURE.

It is AMERICA, and her ideals which give the best and LAST chance to OVERCOME the faults and inequality of humanity by ensuring in law equal opportunity for every person REGARDLESS of any other consideration based in their own thought, work, and dedication through the FREEDOMS  we are all born with.

Why has this been LOST to you and so many of those who support you?