Not everyone who criticizes American foreign policy "hates America". Not everyone who criticizes American domestic policy "hates America". And not everyone who resents paying taxes is anti-American.

No one has accused Muhammed Ali (nee "Cassius Clay") of hating America, yet his criticism of American foreign policy at time of conflict was very obvious.

Why is it that disagreeing with domestic policies isn't regarded as treacherous by the right-wing? Seems to me to be on the same moral plane as disagreeing with foreign policy. (It's obvious one can be critical of foreign policy and still support the people in the military in general and love military members in particular.)

Why isn't not absolutely loving to pay taxes regarded as "anti-American"? After all, if you love your country you would regard positively the opportunity to pay for it.

I think the patriots in the late '60s and early '70s were the people who loved their country enough to say their country was wrong, and try to save American, as well as other, lives and treasury.

Gotta disagree with you on this one. Exercising the right to dissent is not hating your country. I believe the real betrayal of what our country stands for is when those who do are accused of being unpatriotic.

In recent times in Germany and the USSR opposing foreign policy was regarded as unpatriotic. We in the US have always held ourselves out to be different and better, and I for one am not going to let people on this Board try to replace what my America stands for with the tone of those regimes.

To repeat, it is not unpatriotic to disagree with foreign policy, the people who do disagree are not being "anti-Amnerican.

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