:Patriotism is being a realist, while trying to help out your nation. You act based on logic, not on feelings. If your leader is a dumbfuck, who allies with other dumbfucks, you have to call him out, and show the rest of the World that not all of your countrymen are like him. I was about to go volunteer to fight in Afghanistan, but then Bush invaded Iraq, and I though "is this a real war, or politics?" I feel no shame for America as a whole, just sometimes Americans elect morons to office, Buchanan, Bush, Nixon, etc, and they have to be called out. And with a multi-polar World, if America and Russia keep fighting, then both countries will be screwed, and you can start learning Mandarin.