Letters to the Editor
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The Irony Is...
The irony is, should (god forbid) a part of the United States ever be subjected to decades of military occupation and have a huge wall built around it, you can be damn sure the people would fight back.
Imagine the effect upon society of a foreign occupying power that doesn't speak your language, who restricts your freedom to travel, who's forces regularly shoot the kids throwing rocks at the hated occupier. An occupying force who steals the coastline and best agricultural land for themselves and who never stop stealing or trying to steal the land of Americans.
Under such pressures, it's unlikely that many Americans would support an inclusive, liberal and moderate government. The desire for revenge, for strength, for "No surrender to the occupier!" would be the will of the majority.
Americans, no matter what odds, and what suffering would fight back.
If that fight back included secretly designing and manufacturing rockets in the backrooms of places like Jiffy Lube, people would admire and celebrate good 'ole fashioned 'merican ingenuity.
If the fight back included people willing to undertake missions so dangerous and so reckless that they were certain to die, then those people would be held up as patriots of the most admirable kind.
When victory eventually came, future histories and hundreds of movies would be made extolling the courage and never-say-die American spirit that survived the years of blockade and air-strikes and "targeted assassinations" and house demolitions and simple day to day brutality by the occupying forces.
But it wouldn't really be the American spirit that was celebrated. It would be the spirit of humanity itself.