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The Canadians simply don't come across as serious people. I had a brief argument with a Canadian I know about the lumber dumping, and all it took was a quick net search to show where he was wrong about these US trade violations--and he simply stopped arguing. Which makes me think there is this need for Canada to force these "differences" with the US to show their European brethren that they're really not like that big, dumb US, but more like the French.

It's Little Brother Syndrome. I don't know if Canadians wish they were more like the US, imagining what they could do with all that power, or that they LIKE being the Newfoundland dog of nations--large in size but more likely to sleep at your feet than go out and hunt something. But in their need to distinguish themselves from the US, they seem to have misplaced their values, claiming this silly stuff as the writer in the article does--whoever heard of the award from the UN he mentions?--like it's some monumental triumph, and diminishing the US war on terror like it's nothing at all but an excuse for Americans to torture someone.

That this is the second Canadian piece in one week I've read where someone mentions not just the Carlson comments but the Gingrich and the other comment--MONTHS old quotations--shows Canadians trying to kiss up to their UN pals will go to any length, while resorting to trade disputes so minor that you would never know the goddamned country would collapse in a week without US trade to show how "in opposition" they are to us.

I really am uncomfortable with broad-brush comments about countries. But every Canadian should include the US in his or her nightly prayers for all we do for them, instead of this prissy, picayune crap they keep flinging at us. OK, TWO Americans made misstatements about 9-11 and RETRACTED them--wow, ok, that's a monumental slander, unlike anything in the history of the planet Earth, gee, we're sorry, ok? Now go live your subsidized lives which you would never have without our trade, and live secure in the knowledge that our defense budget is protecting you and allows you all to piss and moan about the best friends anyone in this world could have.

And then STFU already, you ungrateful little jerks.

I don't blame your anger especially towards Canadians who think that they do not need to fund a military as the USA will protect them.

I find that attitude intolerable.

However Canada and the USA are REALLY the best of strategic partners.

Huge amounts of Canadian resources and Canadian resourcefulness benefit Americans on a daily basis and will continue to do so, and vice versa.

The Canadians Liberal faith in the future of the Pacific Rim (i.e. China)as a buyer of Canadian resources is not going to replace real Canadian-USA trade anytime soon.

Goods and people in North America move much more easily north and south than east to west and the Liberals and socialists in Canada cannot change that fact, although they will keep trying.