Thomas L. Friedman

Oh, they're brothers from different mothers.

Well, you know, I consider myself a deep patriot.

I love my country.

I think it's one of mankind's greatest inventions, the United States of America.

And it plays a uniquely important role in the world.

You know, one of the problems with Stephen Miller and Donald Trump is that they never lived abroad.

And when you live abroad, what you learn is foreigners love to make fun of America.

We're so naive and we're so silly.

We think every problem has a solution.

But deep down,

They deeply envy America.

They envy our optimism.

And they envy and appreciate our sense that, albeit crazy notion, that every problem does have a solution.

And if America goes dark, the whole world goes dark.

If we go selfish, the whole world grows selfish.

The world has been the way the world has been since the end of World War II, which is to say, period of history more peaceful and prosperous on a relative basis than possibly any 75 years in world history.

And it's been that way because America was the way America was.

Yes, we overpaid for NATO.

We let countries like Japan after the war have access to our markets to rebuild in a way that they took advantage of.

Even China, after joining the World Trade Organization.