> > TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> >
> > This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth sharing.
> >
> > America: The Good Neighbor.
> >
> >
> > Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
> >
> > recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from
> >
> > Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
> >
> > commentator. What follows is the full text of his
> >
> > trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional
> >
> > Record:
> >
> >
> >
> > "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
> >
> > Americans as the most generous and possibly the least
> >
> > appreciated people on all the earth.
> >
> >
> > Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and
> >
> > Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the
> >
> > Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
> >
> > forgave other billions in debts. None of these
> >
> > countries is today paying even the interest on its
> >
> > remaining debts to the United States.
> >
> >
> >
> > When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it
> >
> > was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward
> >
> > was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of
> >
> > Paris. I was there. I saw it.
> >
> > When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United
> >
> > States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59
> >
> > American communities were flattened by tornadoes.
> >
> > Nobody helped.
> >
> >
> >
> > The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
> >
> > billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
> >
> > newspapers in those countries are writing about the
> >
> > decadent, warmongering Americans.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'd like to see just one of those countries that is
> >
> > gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar>>
> > build its own airplane. Does any other country in the
> >
> > world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the
> >
> > Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why
> >
> > don't they fly them? Why do all the International
> >
> > lines except Russia fly American Planes?
> >
> >
> >
> > Why does no other land on earth even consider putting
> >
> > a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese
> >
> > technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German
> >
> > technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about
> >
> > American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -
> >
> > not once, but several times and safely home again.
> >
> >
> >
> > You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs
> >
> > right in the store window for everybody to look at.
> >
> > Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.
> >
> > They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless
> >
> > they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American
> >
> > dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
> >
> >
> >
> > When the railways of France, Germany and India were
> >
> > breaking down through age, it was the Americans who
> >
> > rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
> >
> > New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an
> >
> > old caboose. Both are still broke.
> >
> >
> >
> > I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to
> >
> > the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me
> >
> > even one time when someone else raced to the Americans
> >
> > in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even
> >
> > during the San Francisco earthquake.
> >
> >
> >
> > Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
> >
> > Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
> >
> > kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
> >
> > their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled
> >
> > to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating
> >
> > over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one
> >
> > of those."
> >
> >
> >
> > Stand proud, America!
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > This is one of the best editorials that I have ever
> >
> > read regarding the United States. It is nice that one
> >
> > man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the
> >
> > world would realize it. We are always blamed for
> >
> > everything, and never even get a thank you for the
> >
> > things we do.
> >
> >
> >
> > Maybe each of you can send this to at least one person
> >
> > and they might send it to one of their friends until this
> >
> > letter is sent to every person on the web.
> >
> > I am just a single American that has read this,
> >
> > I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
> >

 

I think it is time to repay these loans, by asking these countries to help track down the terrorists, and imprison any future terrorist, so these things will never happen again.

 

While a lot of that still rings true, that editorial by Gordon Sinclair was originally aired in June 1973 when the US pulled out of Vietnam and was taking a beating in the world press.




For a lighter moment...check out the link that came across the mustang auto-x list:

"How do you know when you are driving too fast..."

http://members.mustangworks.com/drud...ff/toofast.jpg

 

Thanks for the history lesson Roger, but why would any of that even be nessecary? I Don't see how your information holds any grand relevance...

 

Relevance? I think it was very relevant. The quoted material was over 28 years old, and wasn't released in response to the tragic happenings of last week as was alluded to Sinclair died in 1984 so he couldn't have written that 'recently'. I was just trying to clear up those factual errors. Understand now?