Flexible patriotism
Posted by andir on October 04, 2005
So this here is an interesting story. If, 9 years ago, I would have told a republican that Bill Clinton and Al Gore along with their respective chief of staff and assitant have been involved in leakig the identity of a CIA operative, I would have been faced with some rabid person foaming at the mouth and demanding that the president be impeached. In the absence of such damning national security breech evidence, they settled for the next best to national security threat to impeach him with. A blow job, of course. The question is, when is ANYONE going to call the current administration out on it's fake patriotism and expose them for what they really are? You know the kind of patriotism I am talking about, right? The kind that calls for the terrorists to be "wanted dead or alive" and then obstructing the 9/11 commission. Or the kind of patriotism that during the Vietnam war found an easy out in the Texas National Guard, or, in Cheney's case, busy with "other priorities".
Samuel Johnson said it right: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." So true.