A Letter to President Bush

The Guardian ^ | 18-NOV-2003 | Frederick Rorsyth

[George Smiley]

There are numerous letters, positive and negative, that can be read at the URL at the top of this post.

However, Mr. Forsyth shows that he still has the gift of making every word count.

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Dear Mr President,

Today you arrive in my country for the first state visit by an American president for many decades, and I bid you welcome.

You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly on morality and that your recent actions preclude you from the club. You opposed and destroyed the world's most blood-encrusted dictator. This is quite unforgivable.

I beg you to take no notice. The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin.

It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century. Broadly speaking, it hates your country first, mine second.

Eleven years ago something dreadful happened. Maggie was ousted, Ronald retired, the Berlin wall fell and Gorby abolished communism. All the left's idols fell and its demons retired. For a decade there was nothing really to hate. But thank the Lord for his limitless mercy. Now they can applaud Saddam, Bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il... and hate a God-fearing Texan. So hallelujah and have a good time.

Frederick Forsyth
Novelist

[Old Sarge]

Refreshing. Like good beer, bangers and mash.

[concerned about politics]

I beg you to take no notice. The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin.
It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe.

Yep. That's our left wing, too. Losers. Every last one of them.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

BTTT!

[spookycc]

Yowza! I read some of the other letters at the guardian url. Some nasty ones! I was hoping to read more positive ones, but I'm assuming the guardian is a leftist rag?

[concerned about politics]

assuming the guardian is a leftist rag?

Uh huh. The Guardian is VERY anti-American. VERY socialist. Mao/Stalinist delux!

[navyblue]

Dear Fred,

Don't worry about it. He's going to feel right at home!

[Migraine]

Forsyth is the greatest wordsmith I know of in the English language today. He can make a broken pustule on Britain's ass sound elegant. I read The Fist of God back in 96 and marveled at how he could possibly have gotten so many details about the inner workings of Saddam's evil regime. Great read, even today. In fact, only one of his novels, The Fourth Protocol, is passe enough to be irrelevant. For 10 novels, that is a very good record. And even at that, the premise of The Fourth Protocol, bringing a nuke device into Britain, piece by piece in order to detonate it in punishment for letting Uncle Sam install Minutemen on Brit soil, has some relevance for today, as there are any number of ragtime cowboys who would like to accomplish the task on either UK or US interests.

In addition to his eloquence, Fred knows MI5 like the back of his hand. I have no idea how. Finally, being such a big fan of his, it gratifies me to no end to see him stand up and be counted for the cause of truth, justice and the American way.