What a falling off is here

I remember the 200th anniversary and the Queen dancing with Gerald Ford to "That's Why The Lady is a Tramp".

Of course the American Pope declined his invitation to today's party.

I have always had love-hate feelings for America but my reasons for love and hate changed a lot over the years.

 I recently paid my first visit and to my surprise found I absolutely love the country. 

In a sense. 

I do not love America politically, America the empire. 

It is an international tyrant. 

To wish America Happy 4th of July after Venezuela and Iran and the threats to Cuba would be like congratulating Germany or the USSR after she invaded Poland.

This is the moment for Americans to reflect on whether they are proud of their history since 2000 or 1990 or choose another date to taste. 

Do they like what America has morphed into?

Do they intend if not to do something about it?

Trump was right to see that Western civilisation was in big danger and so was America but he is making bad much worse.

Obama got into trouble by attending the church of a black pastor who had once uttered the words in a sermon "Not bless you America. Damn you, America."

Until not long ago America was widely loved. Americans were what the English had been, the boyish masters of the world. Now many people think like  that pastor and for good reasons. In Iraq, Libya, Gaza, in Iran, throughout the world.