The problem with believing that we should back our country, no matter its behavior to friends or foes, alike, is mistaken, because it needs to be remembered and fixated into our minds that a wrong is not ever going to be right, until it is either amended, rectified, or corrected; which thereby signifies that wrong actions by our country should not be endorsed, but rather need to be corrected, or else we will lose our direction, and thereby lose the good principles behind the purpose of our founding.
While we might want to believe that we never make a mistake and therefore it follows that our country never makes a mistake, the bottom line is that neither case is true, and the sooner that we admit that we are on the wrong path, the sooner it will be that we have the opportunity to correct our direction and to thereby do the right thing, which is why it is imperative that we have those inconvenient voices around that remind us that when we are wrong, we need to amend our behavior and to thereby do the right thing, no matter how difficult that task might be.
Those who are most patriotic are not those who believe that whatever their country does is right, but in contrast they do their fair part to hold their country accountable to the good purpose of its governance, because when we fail to label that which is wrong as wrong, we have directly or indirectly contributed to that wrong, and a wrong cannot ever become right, until there is a sure recognition that it is wrong and therefore we need to make it right.
Whenever our government is led by those who deceive us, lie to us, and betray our founding documents, then the end result is not going to be one of integrity and good, but is instead going to represent something which is unbecoming of a country that prides itself on freedom, liberty, and justice for all. This is why each of us needs to do our good part to firstly commit acts of righteousness and secondarily to hold to account and to question misbehavior and wrong actions by our governance, because at the end of the day, this is a government of, for, and by the people, governed under the consent of those same people, and when that government is wrong, it reflects that the people have essentially countenanced to that wrong.
We should always wish the good of the other, because that is what we should hope that the other desires for ourselves, thereby signifying that our contribution to our country should be based upon us doing right by our governance in the expectation that our country will do right by us, and whenever we are on the wrong path, we should be held accountable to such, just as our country and its actions should be held accountable to the people, who have actuated its existence, purposed for the betterment and upliftment of the people, in whole.