[quesney]

You know, Tolik, between this, the broader culture wars, all the criticism of the president's efforts to protect us from catastrophe, and all the efforts to undermine American tradition and civilization, at some point, when can we say that we can no longer consider people in this 5th column as fellow Americans, as we've traditionally thought of the term. To me, they're as much foreigners as anyone in China -- their thinking and character is at least as alien to me, irredemably and irreperably so. I know Romanians abroad with whom I have more in common, and who have more love of America's culture and tradition, than so many libs. As far as I'm concerned, America today is at least two different countries masquerading as one. The big question is when and how the two will be reconciled, and at what cost -- or whether they can be.

[GMMAC]

It's the same everywhere: especially since 9/11, there are but 2 sides in the world today.

Given that it's plainly obvious which side the left throughout the globe is on, we should pay far closer attention to those who promote counter-productive disunity & acrimony within our own ranks.

As example, FR's small, but ever vocal, minority of knuckle-dragging xenophobic morons who routinely disparage & vilify America's friends & allies are both quite obviously less than true patriots & effectively doing their nation's enemies' work for them.

[ChessExpert]

As far as I'm concerned, America today is at least two different countries masquerading as one.

I hope you have some time for reading because One Nation, Two Cultures, by Gertrude Himmelfarb, seems right up your alley: http://www.ashbrook.org/books/himmelfarb.html