American Nationalism: Was Ozzy right? [i] The problem with “nationalism” is that it has the tendency to project itself beyond historic boundaries, both morally and politically.[ii] Indeed, the very thing the State insists it will protect the people from – danger – it ends up precipitating in an ironic quest for power and control.[iii] This is an old process used again and again throughout history. In ancient Greece a man named Plato wrote of this very tendency in his