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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHomeland! Homeland! Homeland!
I really hate that! All over the news right now. We have to protect the homeland!
I never have liked that nationalist term.
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Homeland! Homeland! Homeland! (Original Post)
ChisolmTrailDem
Sep 2014
OP
Apparently ISIS just has to be on flight to the homeland right now! We gotta protect the homeland!
ChisolmTrailDem
Sep 2014
#2
Yup, they're on their way using equipment we left over there when we departed...
ChisolmTrailDem
Sep 2014
#8
My opinion, we mainly need protection from people who call it our "homeland" . . .
Journeyman
Sep 2014
#3
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)1. What are they saying it needs protection from?
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)2. Apparently ISIS just has to be on flight to the homeland right now! We gotta protect the homeland!
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)6. Has the ISIS Naval Fleet set to sea?
That would be disconcerting
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)8. Yup, they're on their way using equipment we left over there when we departed...
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)3. My opinion, we mainly need protection from people who call it our "homeland" . . .
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)5. Perfectly stated!
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)4. Agreed. Before 9/11 I'd never heard it in reference to the U.S.
It's just part of the awful tidings brought to us by The Decider and company.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)7. We need to just go all the way and call it "das heimatland"
Lex
(34,108 posts)11. yeah, I hear it that way anyway
when I hear the term . . .
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)9. I am pretty patriotic - but the phrase Homeland always strikes me as odd
We are a nation of immigrants who took our land from the native Americans - do we really have a a homeland?
Bryant
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)10. Well, it IS more romantic than "The place we put our butts"
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)12. It's appropriate. America is an uber-nationalist hegemony.
There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Homeland.
AH
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)15. über alles