The United States as a nation, keeps ignoring defining moments in its young history as a sovereign nation to live up to the words recorded in its Constitution. Defining moments do not come as often as we like them. When they come, they are to be recognized as an opportunity for an individual or a nation to do something that will either change the trajectory of its history, or follow the course of others that have failed before it. The United States may well be the last of the many nations that stood out among other nations with what it was bestowed with in its inception. Nations such as Egypt,...