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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Sully- who wrote (16472)4/4/2003 3:38:21 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (4) of 89467
 
As those who are against the war in Iraq we need to be sure that our anger does not cloud our reason and that our desire to be patriotic does not cause us to abandon our own deeply held values. We should not have to choose between the two...You can support the troops (as I do) and still be critical of our nation's leaders and their policies.

There will be those who will try to tell us that criticizing our national policies in time of crisis is unpatriotic.

But I agree with William Fulbright, the late senator from Arkansas, who reminded us, "Criticism is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism -- a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar ritual of national adulation. All of us have the responsibility to act upon the higher patriotism which is to love our country less for what it is than for what we would like it to be."
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