Hmm

… Life During Wartime - The American Conservative. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Patriotism has nothing to do with whooping for war or pointing fingers at dissenters and crying “Treason!” It is love of one’s country—the smaller the better—and its people: their accents, their food, their pastimes, their literature and music and history and eccentricities.

I quite agree, and I certainly don’t like our overseas adventurism. But I also don’t see what alternative Franklin Roosevelt had when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. Oh, and Edgar Lee Masters may have started life in Illinois, but he ended his days in Elkins Park, right outside of Philadelphia.