AKRick is not a troll, seems to me. He makes a cogent point. Truth doesn't work when you divide it into thirds.

But each of these incidents has a context. If they are taken in context, the moral indignation will be less strident. It is grievous to do wrong, no matter what side you are on, which goes without saying.

Let me remind you that there is only one nation on this planet which was actually conceived in liberty, built as best as could be imagined to protect liberty and to balance liberty so that it was widespread.

There is only one nation on this planet that prays regularly to the Infinite that its good be "crowned with brotherhood". That publically commits itself to be the land of the free. These are not trifles or hypocritical gestures, no matter how short we fall of these aims.

I am not trying to retreat into jingoistic palliatives, here; I am trying to point out what it is that gives the United States its flavor and informs its decisions, for the most part.

As for the specious references to the Kuwaiti no-fly-zone, I think we made decent offers for the cessation of hostility with Iraq in the first place. We didn't ask for a lot. Just to stay in their borders and stop invading others. Somehow this was a terrible imposition and insult. But it was an imposition that would have been completely unnecessary if the recipient had not violated international treaties, codes, and the peace of nations in the first place.

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