'America In The World'

An institute run by a Tory named Tim Montgomerie, who has declared that the election as president of a man who might not be eligible to hold the office means that 'the era of American exceptionalism is far from over'.

When those such as Mr. Montgomerie refer to 'America', they do not mean the historic American republic; instead they are referring to the internationalist entity it has mutated into under the influence of its internationalist elites. It is some consolation that, although they have been marginalised, those who cherish the republican tradition have not yet been silenced. Their time may yet come.

Unless Barack Obama can clean up the foreign policy mess left to him by those who followed the exceptionalist school of thought - an outcome which his appointments show has little likelihood of coming to pass - then it will only be a very short time before Mr. Montgomerie's prediction is shown to be wrong. As an Americanophile and Atlanticist, it's hard to see how America can go on in its present form if it continues down the path it's followed recently. The historians of the future will one day ponder the era of American exceptionalism and wonder just how and why such a small group of people were permitted to squander all the good works, all the goodwill and all the patrimony of one of history's greatest political achievements.