No. Not fascism. Not even nationalism, as I pointed out in my original reaction to McCain's speech.

Certainly, the international dimensions of Cindy McCain's charity work underscores this point: McCain is not so much asking us to love this country blindly as he is exhorting us to try and make it better.

Patriotism and nationalism are not the same thing. We just really like this "all men [and women] are created equal" stuff. We like it a lot.

We are right to like it, and we are right to want to shore it up—both here, and abroad.

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