Posted on 01/04/2005 12:07:03 PM PST by Sunshine55
I am a Canadian, your neighbour to the north. We’re your largest trading partner, you’re ours; like it or not, you’re our best friends. We like you as individuals. A neighbour who shares your culture to a very large degree can analyse America like perhaps no American can, certainly like no other foreigner can.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtondispatch.com ...
They fear us, and rightfully so, because we are the biggest, the baddest, the smartest, then richest, the most generous, the most tolerant ...
Want more? Ask a Marine the same question.
Because we could kick your asses in a New York minute, presumably.
And although I have enjoyed my visits to Canada and have found most individual Canadians to be nice folks, I think Canadian opinions of America mean squat. The writer assumes that we have to care and be shaped by what everyone else thinks of us and how they want us to act. So his whole article is bunk.
As a resident of greater Houston, I can tell you that a great many Enron executives are in jail with more to come. The left lies with enthusiasm even over perfectly indisputable facts.
we’re insignificant compared to you
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Funny. The author apparently is unaware that those who are moving will not be missed.
"You do not honour the treaties you’ve entered into, I cite among others the Geneva conventions"
I keep hearing that our treatment of terrorists does not comply with the Geneva Convention. IT EXPRESSLY EXCLUDES THIS TYPE OF COMBATANT! It's like the 'war for oil' myth. They can't point to one drop of oil that has benefited any American official-it's just 'true' because they say it is. These people can't be talked to or reasoned with. Their beliefs are totally faith based and rationally unsupportable.
Thank God our eyes don't have the ability to vomit - the violent force might have cracked my computer screen.
Michael McBride is a victim. He is, as he described Christians, self-righteous. He probably has penis envy, too....
Idiots.
Amassing more “stuff” seems more important. I’m not saying we’re any better, but we’re insignificant compared to you and we don’t have the capability to pollute or destroy the entire planet. You do and unfortunately we follow your lead.If you look at consumption on a per capita basis, Canada and the US are identical.
It must be nice to get all 'righteously indignant' while enjoying the comforts (and toys) of the 21st century
Can we agree the Vietnam war was unnecessary? The big fear was the region “might go communist”? Did it? There were 3 million Vietnamese killed, 50,000 Americans; 3,050,000 humans died to what end?
No, we cannot. Yes, it did, at least in part. The end was a halt to that progress. Is this difficult?
"I am a Canadian, your neighbour to the north."
I'm not sure I consider anyone that spells neighbor as neighbour as my neighbor.
First, the USA tried to get by through being loved. It got us 9/11. As Machiavelli said, it is much better to be feared than loved.
Second, there is very little in this article about any reason to fear the USA. There is much about the USA this guy does not like, but he does not cite much to be afraid about.
Steaming load of BS, from a Cana-duh-er.
Yeah, well at least we're not Canadian!!!
(So there.)
Does the Canadian mention TotalFinaElf?
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