Thank God for making me an American.
Quality analysis bump!
It is a country that believes very deeply in freedom, but its idea of freedom is so strongly related to its sense of itself that, when it feels external threat, it reacts with unified fury.
I don't believe I've seen it described as well in so few words..from a foreigner yet!
To separate an American from Freedom is to cut off their ability to breathe. It cannot be done. It can be stifled for awhile but eventually we get tired of existing on one lung and shove back hard.
God Bless our President.