Politics: Frank Miller on Patriotism

Comic books artist and writer Frank Miller has a This I Believe essay up at NPR. Here is the jist:

For the first time in my life, I know how it feels to face an existential menace. They want us to die. All of a sudden I realize what my parents were talking about all those years.

Patriotism, I now believe, isn't some sentimental, old conceit. It's self-preservation. I believe patriotism is central to a nation's survival. Ben Franklin said it: If we don't all hang together, we all hang separately.

Kind of explains why he wants to write Batman vs. Al Qaeda, doesn't it?

Via Thinklings.