America is no longer what may be termed "the land of freedom"

Thank you JustinAMoffat for accepting my challenge. Sorry for the late answer, for the reasons I gave previously. I have no qualms about referring to each other in the third person. I would also like to correct myself by including into my arguments that I am not, when referring to "America" or "Americans" referring to the citizens of the USA as a whole. When I say, at one point, that a certain amount of Americans do not feel the urge to learn about other countries, I mean a majority of those Americans who remain in the USA. There are surely hundreds of thousands of exceptions, from intellectuals, to merely curious people, along with those who love travelling. However, since America has adopted universal suffrage, we may consider that what the government does is representative of, unfortunately, a majority of Americans. I would firstly like to address the lines of reasoning my opponent has brought into the debate: ___________________________________________________________________________________________ I must object to the first point, or rather concede it, because I agree that America"s constitution, as the founding document of the first modern, large scale, democratic republic, is indeed a document favoring freedom and the expansion of Jefferson"s "empire of liberty", and has indeed served for a long time as the basis of a state which has time and time again charged into battle with the express purpose of fighting to make men free. The Second World War is only one of a long list of examples. However, I consider that America has turned away from this ideal of freedom, and no longer considers it to be the most important feature to develop in the world of today. We can see this, for example, when the ethnic minorities in Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein"s government, in 1991, and the UN coalition did"nothing. The rebels were mercilessly slaughtered. Another example is Liberia, to which the USA is historically tied, yet when a bloody military coup took power, and a party-less election tainted by fraud brought the leader of the junta to power, America did little more than condemn the elections before resuming investments, giving the government several millions to upgrade it"s army. Likewise, the USA did little to stop the swathe of civil war which has plunged 85% of the population below the poverty level. This was the country that took a constitution based on the united states", and named its capital after one of it"s presidents. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ As to the first line of reasoning, I am very interested as to what examples my opponent may provide to support that America is still a beacon of hope and freedom, examples I hope I have never heard of, as I am not a primal anti-Americanist, and I would be overjoyed to be proven wrong. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ As to the third line of reasoning, I am just as interested in what the development of this argument will offer, since I am slightly puzzled as to how this proves me wrong. (Said with no intention to be ironic, I am genuinely interested) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Personal argumentation; The people of America do not wish to learn of what is beyond their own country. I will not start on the argument that only 10% of Americans have passports, because that clich" is no longer true since it was issued in the 1990"s" However, I will say this: Americans, due to the fact that they live in a country where almost every climate and landscape type is available, and where you can drive a distance equal to that from France to Iraq without crossing any border, unfortunately do not feel a pressing need to inform themselves about what is happening everywhere in the world-that is to say, less so than other countries" people do, which is already ridiculously small; almost no one, for example, can state the name of the African country in which war finished in march this year. And that is everywhere ont the globe (except in the concerned region). This means that a lot of Americans don"t know what is happening elsewhere. And again, since America is a democracy, this means politicians don"t know what is going on in other places of the world. One of the most gobsmacking examples of this is when president Barack Obama sent a letter to Mr. Chirac in 2009, stating that he hoped that both of them, as the respective leaders of France and the USA, would be able to work together. The president of France was president Sarkozy since 2007. This is not to say that Barack Obama is a bad president (Very far from it), but shows that unfortunately, knowledge about the international scene is not a quality sought after in American presidents probably because of the above reasons. The problem is that Americans only know of the countries they are attacking, which are being attacked because, in the absence of a national value of freedom, the only national value the state defends is that of safety or "and this is going to start a hate storm in the comment section, but I must say it, and this point is open for debate for my opponent- economic interests.