The Love of One's Country Is a Terrifying Thing

The title, patriot games, comes from this irish poem. The love of one's country is a terrible thing. It banishes fear with the speed of a flame and it makes us all part of the patriot game. You mentioned, john earlier, that i in the novel, the irish terrorists make their way to the st with the help of black radicals. A, but there again, you have an instance, rifodof this is the dangerous nationalism. This is a sectarian nalism against our patriotic nationalism.