Posted on 11/10/2007 4:51:43 AM PST by SJackson
Those who claim that the United States has become a rapacious, arrogant, destructive, domineering and imperialistic power must somehow explain the continued independent existence of the nation of Canada.
Alongside our allegedly land-hungry and bellicose empire, the Maple Leaf Republic has flourished for more than two centuries --- vast, under-populated, resource rich and virtually defenseless. Unlike our Mexican neighbors to the south, the Canadians presented no substantial cultural or linguistic differences to sour the prospect of swallowing the Great White North. On three different occasions, Americans attempted or considered a push to absorb all or part of Canada: in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and during the complicated Venezuela Boundary Crisis with Great Britain in 1895. Nevertheless, the Yankee imperialists stopped well short of conquest and in the 21st Century era of unchallenged US hegemony, Canada has gone its own quirky way more notably than ever before, reveling in its separate destiny and distinctive institutions.
Former Toronto Maple Leafs player Dave Keon waves as he is introduced during an on-ice ceremony before a Maple Leafs NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers in Toronto February 17, 2007. The 1967 Stanley Cup champion Maple Leafs team was honoured by the club to mark the 40th anniversary of the last Maple Leafs Stanley Cup win. REUTERS/Mike Cassese (CANADA) The history of U.S. respect for Canada’s continued sovereignty hardly comports with the prevailing anti-American clichés that suggest Americans long to impose on all the world the same “genocidal” approach we deployed against the Indians.
Its those who would like dictators to swallow the world who hate America and the fact that we stand in the way of that goal. And of course the I Hate America Media who could never find a dictator they dislike while never finding a traditional American institution they admire.
Even the Founders, who the Paulbots all claim to revere, fought an Undeclared Naval War with France and sent expeditionary forces to tame the Barbary Pirates.
(BTW- I like your tagline. I am a strong believer in not allowing the left to falsely lay claim to moral superiority...)
Right on Johnnie! Love the new tagline!!!
Really frustrating to watch how PR inept so many talkers and politicians on our side are. The Leftists are masters at creating the false premise and then demanding everyone argue on the base of their phony construct.
No where is that debate tactic more evident then in the phony premise, put out by the Left, that self defense is evil and appeasement and pacifism morale.
Whether it is a nation defending itself or a home owner defending his home and his family, self defense is morale and pacifism merely the active enabler of evil.
Pacifism is oppressions active conspirator.
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