America in the World

"What’s so great about America?"

Next Tuesday 13th January Tim Montgomerie of this website and Tobias Ellwood MP will be answering the question 'What's so great about America?".  The location is The Wilson Room of Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament, London.  The event begins at 7pm.  Please email Ryan Shorthouse if you'd like to attend.

David Cameron launches AmericaInTheWorld.com

BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson quoted British Conservative leader's "This novice is waiting with interest to see how that novice performs."  Watch key extracts of David Cameron's remarks below...

America's role and America in the World's role

On Notable Arguments today, we feature John Lewis Gaddis' argument that combating tyranny - but not so much promoting democracy - is America's historic mission.

In an article for Forward! magazine, Peter Cuthbertson writes about global anti-Americanism and how America in the World aims to combat it.

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What blogs have been saying about AmericaInTheWorld

From New Zealand, KiwiBlog: "This is not a site saying America is perfect or that US Governments have not done some bad things. It is about adding some balance to the anti-Americanism out there, reflected in the poll results."

From Australia, Andrew Bolt: Believing the vicious worst of America

From UK, James Forsyth: "The United States is neither a perfect nation nor a perfect ally but the world is a much better place for America’s involvement in it.  America in the world will make that case and I’d urge you all to visit it."

From USA, Instapundit: " British attitudes towards the United States are governed by ignorance of the facts on key issues such as crime, health care and foreign policy, according to a new survey."

And the BBC's North America Editor Justin Webb: "There's a fascinating and important new survey of interest to all of us who have views on anti-Americanism. It's here on a British-based website with worldwide importance and, it is to be hoped, worldwide reach. The finding that 31% of Brits think Americans without health insurance are turned away from emergency treatment (near the bottom of the findings) is hugely important because we often report (and rightly so) on the failings of the US system and the sense among many Americans that it has to change; but when I tell BBC audiences that large numbers of people are uninsured (which is true), what many Brits think is that those people will get NO treatment (which is, of course, not true)."

We're grateful to everyone who has linked here and we plan to blog at least once every weekday so  keep visiting!

FYI: UK readers might like to know that AITW's Tim Montgomerie is on BBC Radio 2 at 12.30pm today, with Jeremy Vine.

Welcome to AmericaInTheWorld

America isn't a perfect nation but it's not had a fair press in recent times.  AmericaInTheWorld.com is an attempt by a few London-based friends of America to make the case that the USA is a fundamentally good nation. We believe that a world without America would be considerably poorer, less healthy and more dangerous and we consequently reject American isolationism as much as we reject anti-Americanism.

If you want an overview of our features please click here or here for a brief guide to who we are.

If you want to get to the meat straightaway then we recommend:

• The first instalment of our opinion survey of UK citizens and its discovery of widespread ignorance about America.
• Signing our declaration against anti-Americanism and signing up for our email alerts.
• Our page of briefings about America.  You might like to start with a topical one: Will anti-Americanism end if Barack Obama becomes President?

Come back tomorrow for the second part of our opinion survey and on Wednesday for the launch of a two minute campaign video entitled A World Without The American Soldier.