Bush: ‘We’ve Seen Nationalism Distorted into Nativism ... the Return of Isolationist Sentiments’

‘Americans have great advantage, to renew our country we only need to remember our values’

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BUSH: "Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions, forgetting the image of God we should see in each other. We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism and forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America. We see a fading confidence in the value of free markets and international trade forgetting that conflict, instability and poverty follow in the wake of protectionism. We’ve seen the return of isolationist sentiments forgetting that American security is directly threatened by the chaos and despair of distant places where threats such as terrorism, infectious disease, criminal gangs and drug trafficking tend to emerge. In all these ways we need to recall and recover our own identity. Americans have great advantage; to renew our country we only need to remember our values.”

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