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Feeling Nationalistic before/after
I've been feeling nationalistic of late, so I thought I'd share a letter a friend sent to me today.
I liked it.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those." Stand proud, America!
Yeah. Now lets go kill Osama Bin Laden, since he's all about killing Americans. Clown fucker. There is no justice for this blight on the world. Just quick death.
I get a sense of my country as being that one big guy in high school that you've never seen fight, but you're pretty sure he could beat some ass. You've heard stories, but haven't seen it first hand.
So you're not entirely sure. He might just be a big wuss guy who gets by on implied force.
Then somebody dots him on the nose one day to see what's up, and he's staggered. Bloody nose. The guy who hit him cheers, and thinks he's the new bad ass in school.
Then he wipes away the tears and blood, and you see the look in his eyes, and for a second, you almost feel sorry for the dumb bastard that didn't let sleeping dogs lie.
Fuck these motherfuckers. Pick a side and lets roll.
Bin Laden goes first. Then we round up and summarily execute all known terrorists.
Then form a multinational commisson, in charge of anti-terrorism.
Any cause, any country, anyone who uses terrorism to advance their platform gets dealt with quickly and harshly, regardless of their cause, or the supposed justness of their cause.
It's way past time that we as a people, as rationale human beings, put an end to the barbarism.
I know this sounds hurtful.
Its crude. Its brutal. Its pure macheiavelli.
Fuck em'.
They cannot resist the weight of the world forever. If our disparate nations unite on this cause, we will succeed.
Ahh, I'm confusing my nationalisim with my idealism.
I just wish that other people could see what I see.
Root for the nation of Human Beings.
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