Ambassador Garcetti, focus on diplomacy, not on US domestic battles

The United States is going through an ideological civil war, the results of which are yet unknown and of grave concern.

- JAMES E. FANELL & BRADLEY A. THAYER

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's victory, it is a propitious time to review the health of Indo-American relations. While much is positive in the relationship there are some dangerous shoals ahead due to changes not in India, but in the United States. The most important of which is a consequence of the ideological upheaval between the so-called "progressive" political Left and the traditional American ideology of liberalism, traditional family values-namely the protection of children.

The injection of Wokeism into this important relationship is causing confusion for America's friends around the globe, especially for our Indian friends. Countries around the world are perplexed, and angered, by these extreme pronouncements and celebrations intruding from US embassies. Where July 4th or Independence Day celebrations were annual, such joyous occasions were rather rare. Today, due to the ideological success of the progressive Left, there is a flood of identity celebrations and events throughout the year, each seemingly designed to destroy the motto that has made America so unique-E Pluribus Unumfrom many, one.

On the one hand, foreign observers may smile benignly at an America that seems to find new groups to tout and causes to celebrate with each new manufactured holiday. Yet, they must also wonder if in the quest to fundamentally transform America, these progressives will reinvent the calendar beyond 12 months so that there can be new months to celebrate new identity groups.