Can one then love their country while recognizing that, as a human institution, our country can be wrong? Certainly. Would anyone who has seriously read from the history of these United States seriously claim that our history does not include incidents both wrong and egregiously wrong? I certainly wouldn’t. Let us then define the rational patriot as those who recognize these flaws and who love their country no less for them.
Rodney Graves - 02:07pm on 07/02/2008
I heard Chris Satullo interviewed on the radio this afternoon. He seems to think the constitution is a suicide pact and has no problem with holding that notion for “the greater good.”
Kevin - 03:07pm on 07/02/2008
Rob,
Why, oh why, do you give these leftist extremists any credence at all. Just like the right, lefties have looneys in their corner, too. I am sure you know that. So what is your purpose here?
ollie-B - 04:07pm on 07/02/2008
w[h]atashi[t]wa[d],
You failed too, as I recollect. I’d have thought this “gent” was your intellectual next door neighbor.
Chris Satullo’s hair shirt must be very uncomfortable in July, but then, I guess that’s the way Chris and his fellow travelers prefer it.
He fails the test of Patriotism.
I heard Chris Satullo interviewed on the radio this afternoon. He seems to think the constitution is a suicide pact and has no problem with holding that notion for “the greater good.”
Rob,
Why, oh why, do you give these leftist extremists any credence at all. Just like the right, lefties have looneys in their corner, too. I am sure you know that. So what is your purpose here?
w[h]atashi[t]wa[d],
You failed too, as I recollect. I’d have thought this “gent” was your intellectual next door neighbor.