Sarte would have been better off detailing the comments of FReepers on the thread wherein Mrs. Cheney was reported to have castigated some of academia's liberals for too much "self-flagellation" (a sort of Islamic riff on examination of conscience, I guess) and accused them of not being "patriotic enough".
It's that "enough" that's the kicker. While some of us who love our country and fear our government find it patriotic to protest what's happening (using reason and persuasion, not "former radical" Horowitz-style Stunts), there will always be the Mrs. Cheney types whose saccharine demeanors mask a decidedly lethal groupthink at work from the Top down.
Please!
I wish someone would criticize their concerns with reason and persuasion.
Look at this essay.
He states an opinion and supports it by an "appeal to emotion", the out-of-context quote, and the extraordinay use of a Thoreou quote as a defining example of a "Founder"'s precept.
There is no "reason" in it, and thus no persuasion.
The constant emotional hyperbole and intellectual dishonesty of the criticisms posted on FR are harmful to a public discourse that would defend our threatened liberties.
Self-infatuation isn't "love of country."