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...extremists responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents—both Catholic and Protestant—as well as soldiers and police, in the north, south, and the British mainland. Lured by hand-me-down sentiment, Irish Americans unwittingly paid for every soldier killed, every “traitor?? disappeared, every British city center bombed, and every brutal sectarian arms race. For too many victims’ families on our islands, the road to hell has been paved with American good intentions. Al-Qaeda has never been lauded at Buckingham Palace—the same cannot...
...play, the title character defies her nation’s laws to give her brother—an alleged traitor??proper burial rights. As a result, the people of Thebes acquiesce to her execution...
Mark Twain, having been called a “traitor?? for criticizing the U.S. invasion of the Philippines, derided what he called “monarchical patriotism”. He said: “The gospel of the monarchical patriotism is: ‘The King can do no wrong.’ We have adopted it with all its servility, with an unimportant change in the wording: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had: the individual’s right to oppose both...
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