Patriotism to me is rooting for a sports team. For America right now, Obama is the coach and American troops are the players. Americans want our sports team to beat all of the other sports teams so we can call ourselves the "best".
Will said in class that this can be okay to a certain extent, but when lives are at stake, it's not okay. I agree. We should be able to partake in friendly competition with other countries without any kind of violence. For example, we compete over our economies, but all we want is to make it to first place. If we don't get first place, we don't have to fight about it, we just have to try harder. We need to stop treating our soldiers as our sports team because it does more harm than it can do good.
Obviously it's unlikely for America to bring every last troop home anytime soon, but it's something that needs to happen in order to begin to move towards world peace.
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