Nor, was it just English migrations. America, as a concept and nation has attracted the best and the brightest for its entire existence. Every immigrant is proof positive that what the old world has to offer is defective. I’m more than happy to extend every courtesy to our world brethren, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to prostrate myself to some “king” who is the grandson of desert tribe that had the luck of having a lot of oil that someone else discovered and someone else figured how to get it out of the ground.

We have a Constitution and Bill of Rights that says that no one is more equal before God and the law. We do not, for that reason, bow to each other regardless of our respective stations in life. And, the President, the first among peers does not bow to anyone because he has been entrusted with an office that represents to our nation and to the world those very principles so eloquently stated in the our Founding Documents.

Finally, those gestures, such as bowing, are being watched by our enemies. It is those gestures that serve as a temptation to escalate. A weakness perceived or otherwise that leads others to probe even further. Nukes in Iran, a missile launch in North Korea, further intimidation by Russia to forgo missile defense for Eastern Europe. It’s like the “broken windows” concept of law enforcement. Looking after the little things deters the bigger stuff. Small gestures, overlooked, have a way of growing; growing into wars.

I’m an American in England, and let me tell you, they are delighted with the US’s new President and particularly delighted that he knows something of the world outside the US and values the experience of much older nations and does not approach them with the arrogance some past Presidents have displayed.