Indeed, it's strange looking in from the outside that they consider the country to be so precious in this fashion. I would not go if I were paid a large amount

Indeed, it's strange looking in from the outside that they consider the country to be so precious in this fashion. I would not go if I were paid a large amount of money to do so, and I have been offered exactly that numerous times, so that's not just hyperbole either. The US is not a shining city on the hill, it is a slowly sinking empire with walls made of disjointed, often incoherent words, that even the people charged with enforcing the measures extrapolated therein don't actually understand letalone hope to reasonably enforce.