zak is unpatriotic because he/she doesn't believe in democracy or in the basic foundation of the United States, it's Constitution.

zak, the thing that makes the United States a nation is not its money, its economy, its material wealth, or its power and prestige. Those things are distractions, and they rob the people of the US of their very identity as a nation. The thing that makes the United States a nation are its founding principles. Without those, we have nothing and we are doomed anyway, no matter what the countries in the Middle East do with their oil.