{"id":334289,"date":"2021-09-03T05:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T02:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/american-dominance-and-values-sorely-tested\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T05:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T02:50:52","slug":"american-dominance-and-values-sorely-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/american-dominance-and-values-sorely-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"#American dominance and values sorely tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#American dominance and values sorely tested<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Maureen Callahan\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> to the Taliban, we are witnessing the death of American supremacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mere weeks ago, we did the unthinkable: With thousands of our citizens tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in Afghanistan, the Biden administration asked the Taliban to extend our deadline for withdrawal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They said no. We said OK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The United States of America, capitulating to a medieval death cult.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our posture on the world stage is exemplified by our increasingly weak president, head in hands and bending before the White House press corps, unable to explain or defend this unmitigated disaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No less than the New Yorker, perhaps the most august of left-leaning outlets, asked this week: \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/is-the-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-the-end-of-the-american-empire\">Is the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan the End of the American Empire?<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their conclusion: Not yet, but probably.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to be a foreign policy expert to see it. After all, here at home we\u2019re no longer governed by the American DNA \u2014 fortitude, confidence, independence of thought \u2014 but by Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And rather than rebel, America lives in fear of it. Get on the wrong side of any issue, utter the wrong word, say or do something offensive and you will be vaporized, canceled, your exile co-signed by cowardly publications, universities, Hollywood studios, multinational corporations.<\/p>\n<p>No longer are we the home of the brave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The center-left columnist Andrew Sullivan, just last week, told Bill Maher that he did not resign from New York magazine, as announced last year, but was fired with four days\u2019 notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andrew Sullivan: High-deas | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/edgbFyyJt4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Sullivan\u2019s offense? He wouldn\u2019t hew to orthodoxy of thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real problem with this is not so much the woke and online media \u2014 because they are awful and they should be ignored but they aren\u2019t \u2014 it\u2019s the point of the people running these institutions,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cLiberal institutions, universities, magazines, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>papers, they don\u2019t have the b\u2014s to say no! \u2018We do believe in the plurality of views, we are going to defend unpopular writers.\u2019 Free speech means nothing!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s dead-on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>New York Times expat Bari Weiss expressed the same outrage last year, writing in an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bariweiss.com\/resignation-letter\">open resignation letter<\/a> that seasoned professionals no longer edit the paper. Twitter does.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space,\u201d Weiss wrote. \u201cStories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The threat is real, and it imperils our survival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If we cannot abide dissent and debate, who are we? What is our purpose? What is the point of America? We have always been as much an idea as a place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>America is atrophying, and our prognosis isn\u2019t good.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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We said OK.\u00a0 The United States&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/biden-comp-index-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[115283,72315,991,72318,10401],"class_list":["post-334289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-2-21","tag-afghanistan","tag-joe-biden","tag-taliban","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}