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I don't love my country any more than I love my car or my house or my hat. I pay for them, I am responsible for them, and I use them. I'm not sure what loving my country would entail, but I'm sure that I don't love it in the same way that I love freedom or love my family. I think that the idea of loving one's country can cloud one's ability to run said country, and the protective nature of that love can be used to control people.
George W. Bush stole 2 elections can should probably be serving a prison sentence. He has ignored people much smarter than he, and has made a fool of every US citizen repeatedly. We have lost athe respect of our allies, and we have lost many lives. Allowing him to serve as president has been one of our country's great follies, and our children will no doubt question our sanity one day for allowing this.
If we had good relations with our allies, we wouldn't need to have troops stationed anywhere but in the US unless we were attacked. Unfortuantely, we are in a dangerous cycle with the miliatary industrial complex controling much of military spending, which puts pressure on politicians to constantly be in a state of conflict or war. Tha constant state of conflict or war means that we need to streth our resources thin to deal with problems that we often start, and that we rarely fix. A proper democracy doesn't need to have military stations across the globe like an empire.
I do what I can to allow my ideas to take root in the minds of others, but nothing will be done to stop them unless people are able to rally behind a cause and see the resolution to the end.
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