The American mind...is, politically, so deeply formed that to liberate it would involve uncommon, and as yet perhaps undiscovered, philosophical and surgical skill. The great majority of Americans, even the most cynical -- who need no convincing that the words that come out of a politician's mouth are a blend of mis-, dis-, and non-information, and should always carry a veracity health warning -- appear to lose their critical faculties when confronted by 'our boys who are risking their lives'. If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses."