To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.
I totally forgive McCain’s choice of the appalling Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008; would that more of our so-called leadership spoke-out frankly about the danger of the cheap fascist who now occupies and soils the White House.