one's country

In recent days Wang Hung-wei, a prominent lawmaker from the opposition Kuomintang party, criticised Zero Day Attack as "selling dried mangoes", a Taiwanese euphemism that means stoking unnecessary fear about the destruction of one's country.

Surprisingly, the commentariat has seldom acknowledged, let alone analyzed, the neurosis of showy patriotism concealing hidden hostility to one’s country, despite a popular film, “The Manchurian Candidate,” that described its essentials more than 60 years ago.

For Trump, the ultimate honor is not the selflessness of sacrifice for one’s country and the greater good, but service and loyalty to him and his fascist personality cult.

But in his writing and speaking, too, there is this sense of not just courage but obligation to one’s country and, beyond that, to one’s conscience.

It's title comes from a Latin phrase, meaning "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country".