Q & A #8

While reading the article for Q&A#8 there was one sentence that really stuck out to me: "If in the end we are just Americans, if we cannot move beyond patriotism, then we cannot claim to be internationalists."

I feel that this line only applies to Americans after the terrorist attacks occurred. Which, in a way, goes along with Jensen's first point.

This first point talks about the people who became extremely 'patriotic' after 9/11...the ones who really couldn't have cared less about patriotism before but now they feel that everyone should support the war. This reminds me of all those stupid Toby Keith songs that came out around this time for some reason. He never made a political statement before 9/11, but after it happened he came out with about 50 songs that basically said "Support our troops. Defend our country". This makes patriotism seem fake in a way because it was never really shown until September 11th.

It seems like this overwhelming parade of patriotism is ridiculous in the sense that it was never really there before. Yes, I understand that it happened because people wanted to show that they wanted to defend our country, but I don't feel like it has really helped anything. 5,000 country songs and American flags hanging off the home of every redneck in the country does NOTHING to defend our country.

It all seems fake. It's like a show.