The author is probably a nice lady, and she seems to at least support our President. However, I agree that she is doing a pitiful job of defending the U.S.
I'm currently living in Greece, the most anti U.S. of all NATO countries. Individually, I like most Greeks and they like most Americans (isn't it always that way). However, my Greek co-workers know better than to trash the U.S., and particularly President Bush, around me. I used to respond diplomatically, but not anymore. If they accuse the U.S. of killing innocent people in Afghanistan I respond that we haven't even begun. When 1,000 Muslim extremists have been killed for each innocent person killed at the WTC, then we will have made a good start. I say that with deadly seriousness and it usually shuts them up. I always make sure that my vigorous defense of the U.S. includes some viscious (but true) barbs headed in their direction. It's easy when you have 3,000 years of history in which to find incidents shameful to Greeks. I don't need to go any earlier than the start of the 20th century, but I do just to keep things interesting. If I really want to hit below the belt I point out that one of their heroes, Alexander the Great, was a homicidal queer who didn't unite Greece, but rather conquered it.
I hear very few anti-American comments from my Greek friends these days. I wonder why.
She should have kicked their santimonious butts out the door instead of bowing down to them. Who needs friends like that? Those should just be mere acquaintances.
Jeez! what a sob-sister.
Any one of my three very Virginia polite sisters would have drop kicked their behinds out the door. And these are her friends/acquaintences? She should have told them that "God Save You Queens", and topped their dessert with a can of whoop-ass.