The land of the free, or the land of the WASP?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062002543_pf.html

Tovah Calderon is a dearest friend of mine. Juan spotted this article and just sent it to me. Today, I will make an exception and post a reflection, regardless of the comments (if any) it may arise. Tovah is not just a professional overachiever, but one of the best human beings I've ever met, gifted with a true vocation for civil rights and a matchless intuition for legal matters, completed by an international background only match to few. If the one who gave those insidious orders had just a ten per cent of her brains, intuition or culture, he could count himself fortunate. But no, instead of surrounding himself of excellence and vocation, he just followed either his pathetic convictions or someone else's instructions, which is worse. I doubt that there are "better americans" than Tovah or her colleagues, what leads me to a second issue: who sets the standards for "good americanism"? is it related to race, creeds, skin colour, political convictions? good nationals are those who can critizise the state of things in order to make things better, those who, instead of making cheap politics or behaving like good dogs, invest their time and efforts to build a better country with better people. I would advise Mr. "good american" to read some more, specially classic philosophy, political thought or just a good story of the US Constitutional process, to learn the true principles of patriotism, and what links a nation together. The true fabric of a country comes from the idea of both union and diversity, both interacting with a common goal, and not seeing and appreciating the worth of true professionals only shows one thing: fanatism.