text: Very well written.
  A religious cult designed to defend the "sacred" living "god" and the "holy" homeland from foreign invasion can tend to be suicidal.
    The US is as well a politico-religious semi-cult, built around irrational love of a constitution 240 years old and  beloved Founding Fathers who owned slaves. Add American mythological jingoistic love of all things military  and US exceptionalism, rationality and compromise fly out the window. Top it all off with a pseudo-Christianity in which Americans are purported to believe in the 10 Commandments but live by the 10 Delusions, the US is a cultish politico-religious rogue regime.
  
   "Like people everywhere, they reflexively conform to the norms of the world around them without thinking through their merits." This is true of Americans as well as Koreans. As Bruce Springsteen sang, "Blind faith can get you killed."