Something that many traitors can say. John Walker Lindh was fighting for something he believed in. The Rosenberg's were spying for a cause they believed in.
I give up trying to understand the motives of the Federalist/Statist Yankee of the 19th century.
Loyalty. Patriotism. Duty. Country.
It is just impossible for me to fathom.
Apparently.
Let me know when the taliban starts quoting Thomas Jefferson, deal?
What do those four things have to do with Yankee motives?