Cathy Young in Reason:
"Make no mistake, there are people on the left (MIT linguist Noam Chomsky comes to mind) who seem to truly hate America and everything it stands for. They will reflexively sympathize with America's enemies even when those enemies espouse an ultra-reactionary ideology such as Islamic theocracy. But there are also people on the right who seem to regard dissent itself as unpatriotic, and sling about the word ''anti-American'' as casually as some leftists sling about the word ''racist.''
Read the rest here: Patriot Games: The misuses of patriotism.