I tried to imagine the reaction of John Bolton – President Bush's U.N.-hating U.N. ambassador and a Romney advisor – when Romney began citing the nation-building wisdom of Arab scholars "organized by the U.N". Romney ignored one piece of advice that I was particularly proud of.
I took my students in the Bronfman Youth Fellowship in Israel to demonstrate that Jews who live outside of Israel can help the young nation with wisdom we have gleaned about democracy, equal rights and feminism.
We're still here, in great numbers, re-building powerful nations with this wisdom we've protected.
The ancient Hebrews, in fact, did not surpass other nations in their wisdom or in their proximity to God.
The days of Europe's open borders may well be numbered as more European nations examine the wisdom of maintaining an open border policy in the era of ISIS and mass migration.
In the end, they were vindicated by history, the ideals that they championed finally inscribed as the nation's conventional wisdom.
More than half of Republicans one year ago said they had at least a good deal of confidence in the nation's political wisdom.
In Russia's case, the impact is amplified by Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace", which portrays the campaign as a true people's war that owed its success to the elemental patriotism of the Russian nation and the wisdom and intuition of Mikhail Kutuzov, its great general.
For these reasons, and also because no single nation has sufficient wisdom, resources, or legitimacy to deal with this crisis, I have turned to U.N. Security Council and the U.N. Secretary-General to help me resolve this crisis in a fair and peaceful manner.
Such blind public faith in nuclear power has allowed Japan to embrace the energy source at a time when many nations are reconsidering the wisdom of using it.
The Bush administration must now fight the perception, accurate or not, that acts of terror against America's allies can sway nations into rethinking the wisdom of standing too closely with Mr. Bush.
