These states are not nations; they lack historical roots, national integrity.
"HE HAS served our nation with integrity and honour," said John Boehner, the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, of his predecessor this week.
Melville said he leaves with "deep gratitude for being able to serve my nation with integrity for many years, and with great confidence that America, which is and has always been, great, will someday return to being right".
"These attacks, which threaten our country's integrity and our nation's unity and solidarity, do not weaken our resolve in fighting terrorism but bolster our determination," he said in a statement.
John Weaver, a Republican strategist, tweeted, "General McMaster spent decades defending this nation, earning his integrity and honor.
Whatever the reason for the resurfacing of the Abu Musa claims, many here agree the Iranian collective psyche can be wounded by even the smallest verbal threat to the nation's territorial integrity.
Years later, I came to understand more fully how my father and others like him had tried to protect our nation's moral integrity, but at the time Kerry was the only person who made it seem possible to be a patriot and a war objector both.
Although blocking Trump because he is too great a danger to the nation would be an extraordinary, unprecedented action, Trump is already showing himself to be an extraordinary threat to the nation and its integrity.
Instead of turning a peripheral security issue into a potential military clash with Moscow, Washington should seek to trade military disengagement from Ukraine for Russian acceptance of that nation's territorial integrity.
It is a lose-lose situation because the continuous erosion of the nation's territorial integrity could trigger a popular uprising, and even a revolt within the army that had fought a bloody border war against China in 1979 and has grown increasingly frustrated with the party leadership's subservience to Vietnam's historic enemy to the north.
The context is one of enhanced 'migration securitization' wherein the state implies that the integrity of the nation state and its security can only be assured if migration flows and migrants themselves are closely controlled and monitored.
