Don't you love David Corn?
I heard him talking about this on NPR ("Talk of the nation").
His column alone is worth the subscription to The Nation. Of course, Calvin Trillin's poems and Cockburn's "Beat the Devil" are also worth the subscription ;-)
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Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"