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>I have been told that this is not a new editorial but still worth a read
>
>This is worth the few minutes it takes to read.
>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!
> > >
> > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>I have been told that this is not a new editorial but still worth a read
>
>This is worth the few minutes it takes to read.
>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!
> > >
> > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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:shakehead look i know alot of u are thinking about war now i agree but u see my bro is in the marines and he is bein shipped out>>>>plus we are AMERICA and AMERICA WILL WIN because good always triumphs over evil and AMERICA IS GOOD WE WILL WIN because terrisom is pointless there is no point i killing inocent people so who ever is behind this deserves to be killed but what we really ned to do is pray for there to be surrvivors and pray for the men and women in the armed forces pray that they will come home but we need to always remember this and make sure that those who died didnt die in vain FOR WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND WE WILL ALWAYS STAND TALL and like pres. Bush said we were attacked by a FACELESS COWARD and nothing more we need to keep hope up for there to be surrvivors and maybe there are others who have surrvied if so we need to find them and we need to hope and pray because we are THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND WE STAND TALL
