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Sometimes McCain defines his patriotic challenge in terms of political reform, as he did here at the Reagan Library, where he called it "a fight against the pervasive cynicism that is debilitating our democracy, that cheapens our public debates, that threatens our public institutions, our culture and, ultimately, our private happiness."
Reviewers say its conventional use of melodrama cheapens the atrocities of the Yugoslavian war.