Poland, moving quickly from liberal to authoritarian right, listens to no one but itself, certainly not to US trying to disengage from dead-end foreign adventures, knowing how many times they've been screwed over by the West.
I don't know where you're going with your notions about feelings, as if they're not germane to striving for a higher standard of human values. There's as much of US verities today as when Norman Rockwell reflected them in the Saturday Evening Post.
You ask, could it be a cultural thing? It is a cultural thing, The pie, hand over heart, warmth and generosity are still there---the feelings---only poisoned by egregiously partisan stratagems of the punk's game, tearing US apart.
Craig, my American friends here and in the US and those I meet every year overseas say to my wife and me, "I wish we could talk this way at home." We're only talking about what we do and how we feel about what we do, for god's sake.
