Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Fouad Ajami: Samuel Huntington's Warning - WSJ.com

Fouad Ajami: Samuel Huntington's Warning - WSJ.com: "Critics who branded the book as a work of undisguised nativism missed an essential point. Huntington observed that his was an 'argument for the importance of Anglo-Protestant culture, not for the importance of Anglo-Protestant people.' The success of this great republic, he said, had hitherto depended on the willingness of generations of Americans to honor the creed of the founding settlers and to shed their old affinities"

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