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> The "Suffering Love o" of Patriots
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> Philosophy Opinion (Published) Keywords: PATRIOTISM
> Source: Chronicles
> Published: August 1999 Author: Wayne Allensworth
> Posted on 08/17/1999 12:59:21 PDT by The Irishman
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> The Russian writer Valentin Rasputin, himself no lackey of the
> Soviet regime, once attacked Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for having
> crossed the line where "war against communism became war against
> ...Russia." In Rasputin's eyes, the prophetic exile had stained
> Russia's reputation- not merely that of the communist regime - in
> his relentless assaults on Soviet power. The line can be a very
> thin one. At the end of the "American Century," I finally
> understand how Soviet-era Russian dissidents must have felt when
> they attacked communism("Then you favor unjust capitalism?"
> screeched the inquisitors), critized the war in Afghanistan
> ("Support the troops!"), and demanded that the Soviet authorities
> reopen the closed churches of their Orthodox Christian
> country("Separation of church and state is the bedrock of our
> constition!"). No real patriot ever intends to aid and comfort
> his homeland's enemies in either peace or war. But no patriot can
> stand idly by while his country, her body violated and possessed
> by the modernist demon (in either its communist or consumerist
> guise), is made vile and aggressive, as disfigured and offensive
> to the patriot himself as to the world she now threatens.
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> For those who can see clearly what we have become and can bear to
> gaze at an America whose image the world over is shaped by CNN's
> video clips of the victims of depraved adolescent murderers,
> their hapless and deracinated parents, and the New World Order's
> destruction of Yugoslavia (while soulless bureaucrats chirp their
> "regrets" over "collateral damage"), the revulsion felt and the
> desire to explain to any foreigner-or fellow American, for that
> matter-who will listen that this is not America but a nameless
> something else is almost overwhelming. At the end of the American
> Century, the America we love--and so many long for in silence, as
> "nostalgia" is deemed "reactionary" and "sentimental"--is
> preserved only in tiny islands of sanity: a small town where the
> people still answer the call of church bells (there are a few);
> the rapidly filling plains, deserts, and mountains of the West,
> our mythic American landscape; regional accents that somehow
> persist; and in the island of the patriotic imagination, America,
> like occupied Russia before her, still lives because a memory of
> her persists.
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> At the end of the American Century, the price of global empire
> has become evident. We are losing our country: Some even advise
> emigration. To where? The Russian patriot Sergai Bulgakow once
> wrote that only "suffering love gives one the right to chastise
> one's own nation." American dissidents should remember the
> example of those Russian exiles who, like Solzhenitsyn, suffered
> in their loving chastisement of a perverted Russia and have now
> returned to share her fate. No real life in a foreign land is
> possible for us, even if the America we have exists only in the
> soil we stand on and in the piercingly painful memories we
> possess. As long as we have them, there is hope.
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