TR......
I hate to see you go, but I certainly understand. I've gotten so fed-up with the Anti-American comments and have stopped coming as much myself. I chose not to read the obviously slanted threads - but it seems to be popping up everywhere. Reminds me too much of the JW's tunnel vision square boxed opinions of everyone who is not a JW. Likewise, some here have obviously decided that everyone who is an American is pompous, cares nothing about other lives, and is ignorant. I wonder how they'll feel when their Country is under attack and they need help.
TR - thought you'd like to see this - it's an editorial written by Gordon Sinclair - a Canadian television commentor - Broadcasted in June 1973 - the entire text can be found here:
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans.htm
But I've posted a few of the paragraphs that pretty much sums it up!!
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......
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!