GORE

Pondering # 7

PATRIOTIC GORE

"On the right, many who speak with patriotic urgency to support new defense spending recoil at even the mention of trade protection for national industries. On the left, economc nationalism is usually more popular than the military kind. This is not a case of patriotism being the last refuge of scoundrels. It is a commentary on patriotism's ambiguities.

"The paradox is that national sovereignty almost certainly can't be protected unless nations act in concert and, thereby, give up some of their sovereignty. A country that stays out of cross-national organizations lacks any control over the decisions those bodies make, and yet those decisions can powerfully affect members and non-members alike. But international organizations do not naturally command loyalty.