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Many if not most of our Founding Fathers chose to create this union based on commercial interests.
It's pretty sickening of you to simply assume that naturalized citizens have no loyalty to this country. I've become very well acquainted with many and I would trade the least of them for you and your ilk in a heartbeat.
A lovely Lebanese man drove me to the airport when I was in Dearborn last month. I'd take ten million people like him, anyday, over the population of Alabama and MIssissippi. He's been in the U.S. more than 30 years. This IS his country.
I worked with cops, federal agents, and others up there, as well, who are of middle eastern descent, and practice the faith of Islam, but are AMERICAN in every possible way.
Some of us may well have an emotional reaction to flying with middle easterners, while fully realizing that these people are our friends, neighbors and fellow citizens. It has nothing to do with them, and everything to do with our own phobias.