It is America’s great strength, and also its handicap, that people around the world feel as entitled as Americans to hold forthright opinions about ugly events in the US.
It was simple American heroism, of the kind that still comes naturally to citizens of a country that sees no contradiction between individualism and selflessness, a country where the most frequent reaction to hatred or malice is a powerful indignation—and the triggering of a duty to respond.
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