Anger and Pride

Translation from Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera ^ | September 29, 2001 (Translation Posted 12/19) | Oriaia Fallacii

[mjk19]

This link at the source url contains a long article by an Italian writer living in NYC. She really rips Osama and the Islamic world, loves the USA, and defends Western Civilization against the multiculturalists. Its a long article and contains some vulgar language but it was awesome. She beats the PC anti-West crowd to smithereens.

[wardaddy]

Ordinarily Fallaci is a wry sensationalist as an interviewer with decidedly "liberal" leanings. She is however hardbitten and the fact that she is sympathetic to our battle against the Islamists is not suprising. She is a pugnacious sort. Attractive as a younger woman...in a dangerous sort of way. She had quite a tempestuous love affair with a Greek liberal who was later killed or died suspiciously I recall. Still chain smokes at 70 or so. She'll probably live to be a hundred.

[mjk19]

Thanks for the bio info. From the introduction and some of her comments about her lifestyle she seems to be a hermit.

[fourdeuce82d]

This article rocks "...let me explain where the ability to unite that characterizes the Americans comes from. It comes from their patriotism. I don’t know whether in Italy you saw and understood what happened in New York when Bush went to thank the rescue men (and women) who are digging in the ruins of the two towers trying to save some survivor but only coming up with the occasional nose or finger. In spite of this, they do it without giving up. Without resigning themselves, so that if you ask them how they do it they say: “I can allow myself to be exhausted, but not to be defeated.” All of them. The young, the very young, the old, the middle aged. White, black, yellow, brown, purple... You saw them, didn’t you? While Bush was thanking them all they did was wave their little American flags, raise their clenched fists, and roar: “USA! USA!” In a totalitarian country I’d have thought: ”Look how nicely organized this was by the Powers That Be!” Not in America. In America you don’t organize these things. You don’t manage them, you don’t command them. Especially in a disenchanted metropolis like New York and with workers like New York workers. New York workers are real pieces of work. Freer than the wind. They don’t even obey their unions. But if you touch their flag, or their Patria… In English the word Patria doesn’t exist. To say Patria you have to put two words together. Father Land. Mother Land. Native Land. Or you can simply say My Country. But they have the noun “patriotism.” They have the adjective “patriotic.” And apart from France, I can’t imagine a country more patriotic than America. God! I was so moved to see those workers clenching their fists and waving their flags and roaring USA-USA-USA, without anyone ordering them to. And I felt a kind of humiliation. Because I can’t even begin to imagine Italian workers waving the tricolor and roaring Italia-Italia."

[nopardons]

Many thanks for the flag. WOW; what an article!

[RippleFire]

BUMP

[backhoe]

Unless there is some sort of legal prohibition, this article deserves to be posted in its entirity right here- it is astounding, and superb.

[mjk19]

I though it the article was too long to post the entire thing.

[vikingcelt]

One of the very best articles I have read here. Strong, proud, wise...and angry...woman. The world needs more people like her.

[gaspar]

Years ago, when sitting for an interview, Henry Kissinger's ego finally met its match.

[mjk19]

Details!! Details!! Please!!! If she interviews like she writes she must of tore a new one in Kissinger.

[backhoe]

I can see what you mean, but a lot of people won't follow links ( at least from my experience posting! ) and the article may vanish off the site later, making it inaccessable.

It really is too good to risk loosing.

[TontoKowalski]

I agree with you. The article is astonishing. It will take a while to get through it all, but it is worth it.I'll post a little snippet to encourage our brothers and sisters to check it out...

The truth is that America is a special place, my friend. A country to envy, to be jealous of, for reasons that have nothing to do with wealth et cetera. It’s special because it was born out of a need of the soul, the need to have a homeland, and out of the most sublime idea that Man has ever conceived: the idea of liberty, or rather of liberty married to the idea of equality. It’s special also because the idea of liberty wasn’t fashionable at the time. Nor was the idea of equality. Nobody was talking about these things but a few philosophers of the so-called Enlightenment...

What’s more, it’s a special country, a country to envy, because that idea was understood by often illiterate and certainly uneducated farmers. The farmers of the American colonies. And because it was materialized by a small group of extraordinary men. By men of great culture, great quality. The Founding Fathers. Do you have any idea who the Founding Fathers were, the Benjamin Franklins and the Thomas Jeffersons and the Thomas Paines and the John Adamses and the George Washingtons and so on?

[TontoKowalski]

Bumping, hoping to keep the thread alive, and to encourage Freepers to read the linked article.

[backhoe]

Yes, this old gal may be a leftist, but she's got "the fire in the belly" that all good writers need to be really good writers-- if I don't see it reproduced in its entirity, I'll copy it to a new post--

Everyone needs to read it, and learn...

[leadpenny]

Bump

[DB]

BTTT

Personally I think the whole thing should be posted.

[tangerine]

Good read. Thank you.

[liliana]

i'm not sure i remember this correctly but i think the movie "Z" was about that greek man she loved.