In response to Gassa,
Gassa: <<What constitutes national interest can be easily broken down to community interests and again to individual interests. I am yet to meet someone who would willing and readily forsake all his/her individual interests for all our national interests. Have you met one before? As far as I am concerned, some of my personal interests are more important to me than some of the national interests.>> Italics mine.
Which of your personal interests are more important to you than some of the national interests?
May i remind you of an old Latin wiseacre: in vino veritas. I'll be freer this weekend - inshallah - to go through all of the stuff you've been writing of late.