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Originally Posted by JU_88
To say that I find that type of mentality both disturbing and slighlty ignorant is an understatment,
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You don't know my whole personal picture. Though I can understand if you find emotional compartmentalization disturbing. Ive questioned it myself many times.
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but the fact is that half the planet (or maybe more) has the same mindset as your own.
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That's people for you. An individual is smart, but People are dumb. That and in this day and age, i find myself only concerned about the well being and livelyhood of my own home, and not someone else's home. In this context, "home" meaning "Country." I live in the US, I don't live in Iran. Iranian problems are not, or should not be, my concern.
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But then again you probably think I am bleeding heart liberal hippy with no spine. 
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Honestly, you strike me more as a benevolent humanist. There are some people in this world, who have not let malacious things in the world effect them or jade their spirits. I am not one of those types of people.
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Who am I to tell you that my set of morals are superior to your own?
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You have no idea how often ive pondered that subject. Nobody goes to war thinking their the bad guy. Not even the germans during WW2. Is there really a good guy? Is there really a bad guy? Who makes that determination, and by who's standards do they use to arrive at that determination? What makes those standards more correct then anothers?
I answered that dilemma for myself years ago. Right or as wrong it may be, ones country is ones home. Good or bad, for better for worse, its still home. You have to make a stand in this world somewhere, and home is always worth defending. Everything else is bunch of horsecrap.