Interesting thread from someone who claims illumination... still, the Angel of Light's main purpose is deception.
Lifetime, you make a great response. Add to that the Deutsch collective psychology of a nation without natural boundaries, the uncertainty throughout Deutschland resultant from the failed economy, failing democracy and lost war, and the fact that time, geography, culture and history seperate Americans in 2001AD and the Deutch of 1940 and the picture of a needlessly erronious post comparing the two becomes increasingly clear.
I'd also add that Patriotism is a morally positive, rather than morally neutral value. Love is a morally positive value, and patriotism is love for ones country. Patriotism does not mean hatred of another country. Do we hate everyone else when we love a spouse?
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I am the walrus!.... er, no hang on....
A fair dinkum laughing Hyena!