I'd like to reply to the author, but such silly statements
aren't really worth the effort.
Gianfranco
----- Original Message -----
From: Nicolas Colarusso, CGA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: All ok? READ THIS WARNING TOTAL OFF TOPIC SO DON'T
FLAME ME
> Having heard many put down the US and hating their policies I
think we
> should all read this article from a Canadian newspaper, it 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 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, war mongering
> 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!
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