(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
What a boob! The Conservatives are paying attention you idiot!
Deep. Very deep.
I especially like the turn of phrase: "unilateralism leaves us alone with the Americans."
Even the New York Times is silent on poor Canada's identity crisis. Sniff.
"...where do we Canadians go to find psychic, and real-life space in the American empire?"
Canadians can find "psychic" space by learning to think for themselves rather just repeating the currently fashionable liberal line.
They can find "real-life" space in any direction (though they might particularly enjoy a weekend at Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia).
I know the "American empire" must be a bummer. Just last weekend, me and my imperial buddies drove north across the border to rape and pillage. Tough bounce.
Jeez, Canadians are getting as tiresome and gross as a Woody Allen movie. Get over your inferiority complex. You have a great country. I've always loved Canada and hope to again.
Just because the NYT is ignoring something doesn't mean everyone else in the country is "looking in the mirror". Maybe if this guy got out of his little cocoon and read something other than the tripe from the Times he would know that.
Another temper tantrum from the north.
Yawwwwwnnnnnnnn.....
Sorry Richard, it's not because we're preening, it's because we don't much care.
If Europe decides on anti-Americanism, fine, we'll reply in kind. If France and Germany drag each other down, that's OK with us.
We are a bit concerned that the EU may pull down our true friends and allies in Europe.
Could it be that the NY Times is downplaying the EU's crushing defeat because it couldn't think of a way of blaming George Bush? Because it was a defeat for statism, bureaucracy, and rule by the elites? Those are the explanations that come to my mind tht evidently didn't occur to this Canadian.
The explanation for this [is] that...Americans pass their time admiring themselves in a mirror.
This writer chides America for its insularity, but doesn't have a clue about America. Obviously, The New York Times ignores the EU Constitution collapse because it is a democratic rejection of Socialism, and the NYT can't spin it against the Bush Administration. Freepers have been keenly interested in the EU debacle.
To determine what is going on in America by analyzing the NYT Op-Ed page is Canadian parochial stupidity of the first order.
"The explanation for this..is that while we, as medium-sized guys, pay assiduous attention to what others are doing, Americans pass their time admiring themselves in a mirror."
No, I think the explanation for this is the the NY Times has egg on its face and can't deal with the fact that the Euro-dream is disintegrating.
I would advise this author not to judge Americans based on the editorial staff of the NY Times. sheesh!
It's drivel like this that makes me shake my head. At least I have some comfort in that it comes from the Toronto Red Star.
I didn't realize that Canuckistan is part of the American Empire. Isn't Canuckistan more like sunless and beachless form of Cuba?
Canuckistani's should spend some time here in the states before making complete idiots of themselves. Americans are busy tending to daily life responsibilities and recreation to give a crap about what happens in Euroweenie land. Most Americans are damn thankful to have been lucky enough to have been born in the USA. But admiring oneself in the mirror? Come on envious Canucks, you can do better than that.
How did working with 30 other countries make us unilateralists?
The NYT can't use precious space normally used for bashing the war and George Bush, that would require some news that was important/significant.
It was covered pretty heavily on Free Republic. Drudge wrote about it. The Wall Street Journal had a lot about it.
The mouthpiece of the US Left, the NYTimes, fails to run an editorial mourning Europe's lack of self confidence and sense of direction -- collapse --and Canadians are mad. Well, sure! They're nice guys eager to make the world a better place, while the US, when not busy looking in the mirror, is simply mean. Canadians need psyche and more space. Who knew. From all the blather emanating from the Great White North, we thought they had plenty of both.
Here's a twoonie, call someone who cares.