"Canucks view U.S. through skewed eyes"
Marty Feldman?
Canucks? Aren't they and the rest of the league on strike or locked out?
"skewed eyes"-- interesting concept
there's a terrific article by frum in the national review online.com about the real canada and real canadians...i emailed him asking that it be posted on fr but haven't heard..maybe you could post it ,i don't know how....anyway,its nice for some truth telling about canada to show up on fr now and then..our media is as sick a bunch as their media when it come to beating up our countries and at the same time gleefully and lovingly whitewashing marxist/socialist bastions around the world....truth to the media is like sex to me..a fond but distant memory...bcboy
I live in the US and I wish we had more like him in our universities.
Something I concluded a short time ago is that most of modern western civilization gets the majority of "reality" painted by a liberal press. In the US I feel the liberal press despises the US and has hysterical hatred for Bush.
I don't know if the press in other countries despises the US, but have no reason to think otherwise. As I read stories from European papers, there surely seems to be the same hysterical hatred of Bush.
Yet, over many years I have worked in a job (I recently left) with Canadians, folks from England and even France. I simply never experienced any animosity from ordinary citizens in these other countries. While I know the condescension and disdain exists, these days I choose to think it is among the minority, as self-hatred is a loud but minority quality in the US. My wife and I are vacationing in Europe in March, and I truly anticipate the trip.
I wasn't alive then, but have read about how unpopular (in the US) our involvement in Europe was at the end of WWII. The Berlin Airlift was known to be pure lunacy even in the US military. Truman and a few generals felt to succumb to pressure from the Soviet Union and us opinion would cost the US and the world infinitely more that the cost of keeping three quarters of Berlin free. I think Truman was right.
It seems to me that an attempt to help the "middle eastern" world join the 21st Century is the same thing. It may not even be on a larger acale although it certainly is no less daunting. Who knows if we will even prevail. Yet think of how much better the world will be if democracy gains a toe hold in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Gaza. Think of how much worse it will be if we fail. Yet you get the feeling liberals want us to fail.
I will choose to think the majority of the free world, including those in Canada want freedom to win.
now i'm a bit more up to speed...frum can be found at www.nationalreview.com/frum/diary/120204.asp.....the article[dec,2]can be printed and sent out so no copyright issue
In his most recent book, Anti-Americanism, Revel discusses once again how much of European antipathy towards America is driven by hostility to Jeffersonian democracy, rather than any rational analysis. THESE TWO PARAGRAPHS SHOULD BE ALL OVER THE NEWS, TALK RADIO ETC. This is what will change the world. Ask one question? If Africa and India had suburbs with a Home Depot and homes built like America -how big would the world economy grow and how much tension would go out of the clash of cultures?
This has come to pass. Unfortunately the revolution is multiculturalism, and the Jean who saw the truth was Raspail not Revel.
Europe, Revel reminds us, is the cradle of the two great criminal ideologies of the 20th century -- Communism and Nazism -- and it is America that rescued her from both, as it will most likely again from the perils of Islamist fascism.
There is no clash of civilizations, there is only an internal civil war in the West. Islam isn't powerful enough to confront the West. If the U.S. and Europe had the same Muslim populations they had 50 years ago there would be little threat of Muslim terrorism.
Its hard to get pumped up about Canada. Its like the very very back part of your yard you throw junk in or don't care about like the space behind the shed. I would take my dog for a walk there as long as they don't have a "Poop & Scoop" law.