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A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.

America: The Good Neighbor.

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 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, 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 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!
 
I've yet to see _anyone_ mention both the countless evils and countless good acts of the u.s. This is getting rather repetitive.
 
Yes, isn't America magnificent!

Fucking hypocrites. It's this type of arrogance that annoys the rest of the world. Everyone thinks their own country is the greatest... yes even Afganistans.
 
Since people are posting quotes and write-ups anyway, here's my little contribution, originally assembled by Randolph Carter and posted to the Xiphophorous (www.xiph.org) Vorbis mailing list:

" History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period
of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but
the appalling silence of the good people. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It's a hard decision, but we think the price ... is worth it."

Secretary of State Madelaine Albright talking about Iraqi children
starving and dying as a result of the US embargo of food and medicine


" The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed
by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing
about them."

George Orwell, English writer, 1903-1950
 
I've said it before -

Yes, I'm proud to be an American, as all of you are proud of your countries (or you wouldn't be there).

But, this is about terrorism, not countries. If you support your country - you're a patriot (or whatever they call it in other countries) : if you support terrorism - you're an asshole.
 
Originally posted by metalmancpa
I've said it before -

Yes, I'm proud to be an American, as all of you are proud of your countries (or you wouldn't be there).

But, this is about terrorism, not countries. If you support your country - you're a patriot (or whatever they call it in other countries) : if you support terrorism - you're an asshole.

Exactly. There can never be any reason strong enough to warrant terrorism like this, whether it's in the U.S, Australia or Iceland....
 
Originally posted by metalmancpa
I've said it before -

Yes, I'm proud to be an American, as all of you are proud of your countries (or you wouldn't be there).

I'm not proud of my country (UK). I mean we go to a country for a football match and start riots, we're overly patriotic with no right to be - we're blatantly not the best country in the world for many people.