I lie awake on the 4th of July as they celebrate what is --- very charitably --- the end of a failed experiment. How fitting that they express themselves through decorative explosives.
How many have lain awake to the sound of American bombs, knowing they might die at any moment?
"The rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there."
A flag. A pacifier for the brain. That's all nationalists really care about.
Everything else can get blown to hell.