Reply #55: I loved your OP and I agree with this.

[Withywindle]

I don't doubt Al Gore loves his country. What I think he's figured out is that loving America is all well and dandy but that won't buy you the last bottle of water left when the planet America is part of is dying.

Right wingers think that loving America but loving the whole world more is a form of treason. I think (and I think Gore thinks) it's treasonous, not to mention delusional, to act as if America is some kind of private space island that'll always be safe, no matter what happens to the rest of the planet. When the problem is global, you can't save just one country. You save all of it, or none.