The rest of the world learned a different lesson from the fall of the Soviet Union than the United States did. A huge military drained the wealth out of a country. While we’ve spent the years since then growing our military spending, they’ve concentrated on economic growth. And they are succeeding.

Most Americans think that the territories are just like states. They certainly aren’t and in times of crisis, the residents get to learn that first hand. In times like these we’re reminded that colonies (with all that bad things we think of when we think of colonies) still exist in our hemisphere.

Lots can be said about what Janet Reno did to hurt our country, but Identity politics got her where she was and allows for her to be deified to this day. America will never be great again until we look to the best vice merely filling quotas.