When I was young I was taught that it was right to be loyal to one's country right or wrong, subject to the vital conditions that, if it was right, one would do all that one could to keep it so and, if it was wrong, to do all that one could to put the matter right. The same view can be taken of one's link with one's tribe or other grouping, but the same conditions must always apply, if one wishes to retain any trace of either honesty or decency.
This is where I find myself having to disagree profoundly with our president, Mr Sarkozy, who has announced his disavowal of the policies followed by every government since the decision by de Gaulle not to subjugate our armed forces to control by any outside power. He now proposes to make them, after he has further weakened them by savage financial cuts, come under direct and/or indirect orders from two "rogue states" (if that is the correct translation of the expression états voyous) which show no respect either for international law or for justice. I am referring, of course, to the USA under the Bush régime (as under those of several of Mr Bush's predecessors) and the latter's masters who have occupied Palestine.
In the USA, Mr Bush's preferred successor, Senator John McCain, who shows every sign of wishing to initiate a third Bush term (and, why not, a fourth) in the White House, casts doubts on his principal opponent's loyalty.
Whatever may be quality of Mr Obama's loyalty to his own country, cast into serious doubt by his declaration of loyalty to the most extremist elements within AIPAC, whose only loyalty in its turn is to a hostile terrorist and racist entity, that of Mr McCain is deeply flawed. We are constantly reminded of his heroic (if that is the right word) past when a prisoner taken in flgrante delicto when bombing Viet Nam, but he has never explained how any genuine loyal citizen of the USA could ever speak and/or vote in favour of the Patriot Acts. That was the most shockingly clear treason against the people of the USA.
Senator McCain is struggling hard to cover up his extreme closeness to the Bush régime, and some go so far as to suggest that he is merely a clone of Mr George W. Bush, but with the addition of some intelligence and cunning. This addition is essential if he is to overcome the difficulty that substantial portions of the sheep-like voting have finally managed to see through the obvious fact that the Bush régime's policies are (including literally) bankrupt.
As for Mr Obama, his newly found loyalty to AIPAC (thereby joining Mr McCain and Mr Bush) may catch up with him if and when voters realise just how racist even the mildest form of Zionism is in its essential application of apartheid whereby no "non-Jew" (as defined by its "Laws of the Aliya") can ever have full citizen rights in its "Jewish homeland" (again as defined in those and others of its supposed "Laws").
Every candidate for high office, especially the highest in any land, should declare his or her loyalty to the country in question and set out clearly what he or she will do everything to preserve and what he or she wishes to change, but, in both cases, the effect of this on the voters and their country should be clearly set out.
Please do not hold your breath while waiting for any such declaration from the principal candidates for the presidency of the USA, since if will never come, and the most hypocritical (or Orwellian) use by Mr McCain of such words as "patriotism" or "loyalty" is sickening.
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