INGRATES!
Posted on 07/21/2006 3:15:31 PM PDT by GMMAC
Your xenophobic and racist rant has outed you as a loon. Congratulations!
Oops, you are so RIGHT... I should have responded to Peach. You travel when and where you wish. And, it isn't the "cost" necessary to return the whiners home, it's the ATTITUDE AND ACCUSATIONS TOWARD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT (which means me and all citizens of the best country on earth) that bugs the hell out of me! And, as for "business trips" I'm referring to the ones that go over them and exploit the area to make tons of money (don't say that isn't true, I know people who have) and now are whining because we didn't freakin' rescue them within one hour, just like the "Katrina victims." You know what I'm talking about, and the "dual citizens" that avoid paying taxes here... But now want our taxes to pay for the safe return and even then, whine because it wasn't fast enough. Please don't make me go on...
Oops, you caught me!!! Now what?
Bravo!
It's about time for an ambitious soul to go through Ann's books and columns and pull out "The Quotable Ann Coulter." I mean, if people can read "Quotations of Chairman Mao" -- which were as turgid as used motor oil -- they will dance in the streets after reading Annie.
In Free Republic, we like to maintain a clear distinction between intellectual admiration and raw lust.
It's amazing to me too, wlandsodidwe.
The day I don't support a freeper in a war zone is the day I quit Free Republic.
INGRATES!
You do understand that the reason we had an atom bomb is that we got Germany's scientists after Germany surrendered, that we were still at war with Japan for a year after Germany surrendeed? We didn't have the bomb ready until 1945.
Thanks. Leave it to me to be "close" but not quite right when it comes to history. The point that I was trying to make upthread was that it wasn't a given that we would be on the winning side in WWII.
Well said. And I generally feel that way about any American in that situation. Evacuating American civilians is the morally and ethically correct thing to do when possible. The State Department and DOD did a magnificent job planning and executing a large-scale evacuation program in a reasonable amount of time with no casualties.
However, Americans traveling abroad should understand that evacuation is not a "right" or an "entitlement", and there are no guarantees that evacuations can always be carried out.
OK. Let's spend a week touring Baghdad.
I watched local (DC) coverage of the arriving evacuees at Thurgood Marshall (nee BWI) airport. Maybe I'm a racist or xenophobe, but it seemed the Euro-Americans were grateful to be home and noted appreciation of efforts made on their behalf. On the other hand .... those who appeared of Middle Eastern extraction couldn't condemn our government enough given the photo op.
I have become chauvinistic enough now to say the US has to stop this dual citizenship crap. They can become Americans like our ancestors did, renouncing allegiance to any other nation, or they can stay in that other country. We just cannot afford for them to have it both ways.
same with the "Brits"
The idea of identity is now one way, but saying so makes you "racist".
"same with the 'Brits'" ... and Canadians as I read on another thread.
Something uniquely wimpy (as opposed to WASPy) about white anglo-saxons these days. Guilt, I guess, for having been so powerful for so long, for their advances in society, the sconomy, science, medicine, trade, etc. I'm beginning to think the last of the tough, manly-man Anglo-Saxon-Celts are in Australia.
Read your page ... what an exciting life you've led !!!
Hope you stay safe in Indonesia ... it's about as "iffy" a place now as exists.
"and Canadians as I read on another thread. "
oops, that was THIS thread. sorry. I'm so easily confused ;)
Australia will be last refuge of the "white-man."
There is no doubt.
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