and if it is revealed, i'll still love my nation. I'll shock you further and tell you that i KNOW there are spooky things the government does but ONLY in our best interest. If it comes out we crashed the planes to keep the rest of the nation safe by taking out Iraq before they got weapons of mass destruction, i'll still salute president bush, might even make me respect him more by realizing he had even bigger balls than i initially thought.
Yep, i agree sometimes our government probably has to do some spooky things and i'd still love my nation, fly the red white and blue proudly and be DAMN glad i'm an AMERICAN!
Cool. I respect this a lot, rooster.
Someone once said that you should love your nation 100% of the time, and your govt when they earn it. I think that makes sense. There have been corrupt administrations in history, there is no denying that. And people who criticized them weren't bad people - they were technically right.
ANd yes, our country is run looking at the next 100 years - and yes, their letting 9/11 happen was a GOOD move for the US' long term interests. It gave us afghanistan, which we upgraded to iraq. Yes, we did it for "freedom" - but it was the freedom that comes from owning resources of the world that CHI/RUS cannot.
In the end - the dems are RIGHT from a moral mindset. And the repubs are right from a practical mindset. Bush did a horrible thing by letting 911 happen, on a moral level. But a wonderful thing, on a utilitarian, longterm US interests, level.
That is why politics is so damn intriguing. Even when you're completely wrong, you're often still completely right. And vice versa.