“It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.”
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Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.