Curious forum you have here. I grew up in Detroit, MI-USA which is across the river from Windsor, ON. I’ve spent a lot more time in your country than most of you probably have in mine. I’ve found most of the folks there to be kind, nice, reasonable people. Some of you all on this forum, not so much.
Since many of you see fit to generally condemn, criticize and otherwise insult my President and my country in broad strokes and without the pretense of any sense of honest and intellectual debate, I feel a few salient points need to be made here.
With the exception of Canada Dry ginger ale, the Macintosh apple, hockey, and proof that socialized medicine doesn’t work so well, exactly what has Canada done for the world?
I don’t exactly recall seeing Canada anywhere when the Berlin wall came down or the fall of the communist Soviet Union.
The United States of America, for you uniformed people, is the only country in the world with a constitution written by people who believed human beings are entitled to certain inalienable rights. Namely life, liberty and property. Your own Fathers of Confederation blessed your government with the right to unlimited taxation of its citizens.
You claim our actions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere are “illegal“ and that we have started “illegal wars.”
First, you should know that most Americans don’t give a rip what the world thinks, despite what you may see in the media. 59 million Americans gave George W. Bush his mandate in our last election.
Although apparently deposing 2 bit dictators who have oppressed and slaughtered thousands if not millions of their own people isn’t a worthy enough goal for some of you. So if you consider our actions in Iraq and elsewhere, illegal, it scares me to consider exactly what you think should be “legal.”
12 million Iraqi’s gave the world “the finger” when they held up ink-stained hands indicating they had voted--many for the first time in their lives. Since when is freedom not a worthy goal? We helped save the world twice in a century, both times because of arrogant euro-trash that doesn’t get it. A commonly held belief among many of my countrymen, is that next time, we should mind our own business.
The almighty United Nations was a U.S. invention (as was the League of Nations before it.) That doesn’t mean the U.S. is going to listen to dictators and pathetic nations that don’t or won’t stand up in the world for freedom and democracy. You can believe Iraq is all about oil, if that‘s what it takes to get you through your day. Although we haven’t had any Iraq oil for a long time and the U.S. economy is moving along quite nicely, thank you very much.
The reason for unwavering U.S. support of Israel is that Israel is (was) the lone democracy in the region. Iraq is a wake up call to the rest of the middle east. Like it or not, life for all those regimes is going to change. Containment is no longer an option.
And yet, when pond scum Muslim extremists kill 3,000 innocent Canadians, you may be able to assert the moral high ground. Until then, try to remember that when terrorists hit my country again.
Also try to remember that you don’t have to expend a whole lot of money on military defense, since you get to be the unintended beneficiary of ours. (As if the U.S. would let Canada be invaded.)
Who will Taiwan turn to for protection from China? Canada or the U.S. You have how many aircraft carriers, again? Oh yeah, none.
Contrary to popular belief, we don’t have any desire to rule the world. Personally, I’d prefer it if my country would stop giving money to thankless, irrelevant nations that stab us in the back at every turn and then expect a handout afterwards.
Hey, here’s a concept. The day the U.S. has to move Canada out of the way to help out somewhere in the world will be a good day for the world, indeed.
Perhaps Canada could do something about the slaughter of innocent people taking place in the Sudan?
Dictators can commit wholesale genocide and apparently that’s way cool with some of you. If the U.S. does anything about it, suddenly that’s “illegal.”
Perhaps Canada could address the proliferation of nuclear weapons with China, North Korea or Iran?
Oh yeah, that’s right. Neither China, North Korea or Iran fears Canada or any of the Euro-trash, who, rather than actually doing anything about anything, prefer to thump their collective chests at the U.N. and criticize the U.S.
This of course makes them look exactly as they are, petulant children who whine because the “big kids” won’t listen or play with them.
Or you can be as spineless as Spain and just cut-and-run the first time things get rough. Yes, you certainly have to respect a country that let’s itself be bullied by fanatic thugs and murderers following 7th century Muslim dogma.
In the meantime, if U.S. policies and actions are so repugnant to your sensibilities, please feel free to stop buying and using all American products. For example, the internet technology that you are using now, or the windows based operating system or apple computers, our cars and anything else made or developed in the U.S.A. You won’t hurt our feelings in the least and God knows we wouldn’t want you to be a hypocrit.
In any event, my intent is not to claim any moral superiority here. Yet you may consider that it’s real easy to criticize your friends to the south when you don’t have any skin in the game.
To that end, it would seem to me that you (and perhaps the rest of the world) should either put up or shut up.
Since many of you see fit to generally condemn, criticize and otherwise insult my President and my country in broad strokes and without the pretense of any sense of honest and intellectual debate, I feel a few salient points need to be made here.
With the exception of Canada Dry ginger ale, the Macintosh apple, hockey, and proof that socialized medicine doesn’t work so well, exactly what has Canada done for the world?
I don’t exactly recall seeing Canada anywhere when the Berlin wall came down or the fall of the communist Soviet Union.
The United States of America, for you uniformed people, is the only country in the world with a constitution written by people who believed human beings are entitled to certain inalienable rights. Namely life, liberty and property. Your own Fathers of Confederation blessed your government with the right to unlimited taxation of its citizens.
You claim our actions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere are “illegal“ and that we have started “illegal wars.”
First, you should know that most Americans don’t give a rip what the world thinks, despite what you may see in the media. 59 million Americans gave George W. Bush his mandate in our last election.
Although apparently deposing 2 bit dictators who have oppressed and slaughtered thousands if not millions of their own people isn’t a worthy enough goal for some of you. So if you consider our actions in Iraq and elsewhere, illegal, it scares me to consider exactly what you think should be “legal.”
12 million Iraqi’s gave the world “the finger” when they held up ink-stained hands indicating they had voted--many for the first time in their lives. Since when is freedom not a worthy goal? We helped save the world twice in a century, both times because of arrogant euro-trash that doesn’t get it. A commonly held belief among many of my countrymen, is that next time, we should mind our own business.
The almighty United Nations was a U.S. invention (as was the League of Nations before it.) That doesn’t mean the U.S. is going to listen to dictators and pathetic nations that don’t or won’t stand up in the world for freedom and democracy. You can believe Iraq is all about oil, if that‘s what it takes to get you through your day. Although we haven’t had any Iraq oil for a long time and the U.S. economy is moving along quite nicely, thank you very much.
The reason for unwavering U.S. support of Israel is that Israel is (was) the lone democracy in the region. Iraq is a wake up call to the rest of the middle east. Like it or not, life for all those regimes is going to change. Containment is no longer an option.
And yet, when pond scum Muslim extremists kill 3,000 innocent Canadians, you may be able to assert the moral high ground. Until then, try to remember that when terrorists hit my country again.
Also try to remember that you don’t have to expend a whole lot of money on military defense, since you get to be the unintended beneficiary of ours. (As if the U.S. would let Canada be invaded.)
Who will Taiwan turn to for protection from China? Canada or the U.S. You have how many aircraft carriers, again? Oh yeah, none.
Contrary to popular belief, we don’t have any desire to rule the world. Personally, I’d prefer it if my country would stop giving money to thankless, irrelevant nations that stab us in the back at every turn and then expect a handout afterwards.
Hey, here’s a concept. The day the U.S. has to move Canada out of the way to help out somewhere in the world will be a good day for the world, indeed.
Perhaps Canada could do something about the slaughter of innocent people taking place in the Sudan?
Dictators can commit wholesale genocide and apparently that’s way cool with some of you. If the U.S. does anything about it, suddenly that’s “illegal.”
Perhaps Canada could address the proliferation of nuclear weapons with China, North Korea or Iran?
Oh yeah, that’s right. Neither China, North Korea or Iran fears Canada or any of the Euro-trash, who, rather than actually doing anything about anything, prefer to thump their collective chests at the U.N. and criticize the U.S.
This of course makes them look exactly as they are, petulant children who whine because the “big kids” won’t listen or play with them.
Or you can be as spineless as Spain and just cut-and-run the first time things get rough. Yes, you certainly have to respect a country that let’s itself be bullied by fanatic thugs and murderers following 7th century Muslim dogma.
In the meantime, if U.S. policies and actions are so repugnant to your sensibilities, please feel free to stop buying and using all American products. For example, the internet technology that you are using now, or the windows based operating system or apple computers, our cars and anything else made or developed in the U.S.A. You won’t hurt our feelings in the least and God knows we wouldn’t want you to be a hypocrit.
In any event, my intent is not to claim any moral superiority here. Yet you may consider that it’s real easy to criticize your friends to the south when you don’t have any skin in the game.
To that end, it would seem to me that you (and perhaps the rest of the world) should either put up or shut up.
