Posted on 07/19/2004 11:03:41 AM PDT by knighthawk
A recent poll says 40% of Canadian teens believe the United States is "evil." Among French-Canadian teens, it's 64%. This, of course, must be laid on the doorstep of the often viciously anti-American Canadian press, as well as irresponsible Canadian teachers.
America is getting slaughtered in the arena of public opinion. So what can we expect from children? When government-funded press agencies like the BBC and Canadian Broadcasting Corp. portray America as the world's chief villain, there's little anyone can do to balance the picture. Fox News Channel, for example, isn't even allowed in Canada.
So for the benefit of Canadian kids and, indeed, all children, I am going to set the record straight. Let's start with an undeniable fact: The United States has set more people free than any country in history. We know about World War II, but here's what's happened recently:
* In Eastern Europe, Ronald Reagan's policies led to the freeing of 122 million from Soviet domination.
* More than 48 million South Koreans remain free because of American protection.
* Nearly 23 million Taiwanese remain free because of American protection.
* The state of Israel and 5.5 million Jews would be crushed by its enemies if not for American aid.
* By removing brutal regimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, America and Britain have given almost 50 million people a shot at self-determination. Also, the American-driven campaign against the Balkans butcher Slobodan Milosevic saved hundreds of thousands, most of them Muslims.
* America sends $3 billion a year to Africa to combat AIDS. Canada sends $270 million; France, $60 million.
And those countries have the nerve to portray America as a villain? How many human beings has France, or Canada, freed over the past 60 years? Those nations have helped the U.S. on occasion, but are drifting from reality now.
It's not only Canadians and the French who are misguided; there's a fifth column in America. "Anarchists" hope to disrupt the Republican National Convention in New York City next month. Police believe they will use violence to do so. And the verbal violence spewed daily by partisan fanatics grows more despicable. Michael Moore and his acolytes hide behind the "dissent" label, but they're not dissenters, they're destroyers. Moore has been quoted as saying capitalism is "diabolical," even as he trucks his millions to the bank. Did you know that associates of Hezbollah want to help distribute Moore's movie in the Mideast? What does that tell you?
America is a great country striving to protect itself in an ungrateful and dangerous world. We, the people, have sacrificed blood and money so others could have a chance. Canada's powers-that-be should be ashamed of their young people's ignorance, but I know they are not. Ignorance is most often a contagious disease.
Ping
Did O-Reilly type "Eh?" The correct spelling is "Et" unless he was using a play on words with the "eh" Canuck thing. :-)
That's why you always hear this statistic measured per-capita, or as a ratio to GDP. Nobody (besides Bono, of all people) wants to admit a Republican president is actually doing something while everyone else is just talking.
What would the world do if we really were evil? I mean, I would the planet be like if we acted like the bad Enterprise crew in Mirror/Mirror?
Thank God that we are a good, kind people. We try to do the right thing.
My wife and I just scrapped our Canadian August vacation plans a week ago. Our kids hadn't known about the trip, and we've made other plans in the US.
It caused a little friction between us, because my wife isn't as politically active as I am, but I just couldn't bring myself to reward Canada with our vacation dollars.
Perhaps they should refuse our evil Yankee dollars and not cross the border.
I'd say put up a security fence but the pacifist Canucks are too busy with drugs and same-sex marriages to be much of a threat. After all, TEN out of TEN terrorists PREFER vacations in Canada over anywhere else. Much be the HUGH amount of frogs in Queerbait-a-bec or maybe, the jihadist's hiding out in Toronto or Montreal.
Canada is a piss-ant country with a massive inferiority complex. They envy us, but they have to hate us because otherwise there is nothing that differentiates them from us. Canada, on the world stage, is irrelevant. Not a player, and isn't going to be. Ignore them. Just make sure Homeland Security is well funded to keep arab terrorists in Toronto and Montreal, not in the US.
What's a "Canada"?
Dear Canadian Teens,
If the U.S. was truly evil, you would not be Canadians maligning a neighboring country, you would but U.S. subjects working for "the glory of the empire".
Best regards,
The U.S.
Then there was a 'letter to the editor' by some woman castigating GWB's daughters for wearing nice clothes to some event. Her 'reasoning' was that our troops in Iraq supposedly don't get to play 'dress up'. Talk about 'beyond the looking glass' irrationality. Lefties have really lost it (not that many of them ever had it).
Makes perfect sense to me.
Too bad that, during the Revolutionary War, the Continental Army's efforts to take Canada failed.
Me to Canadian teenagers: "Just go 'Cheney' yourself!"
``Even liberals have credited Mr. Bush with doing more than his predecessor to help Africa. In May, Live Aid founder Bob Geldof said Mr. Bush is far more committed than Mr. Clinton to fighting AIDS and famine on the continent. "Clinton talked the talk and did diddly squat, whereas Bush doesn't talk but does deliver," said Mr. Geldof, an Irish musician and activist who in 1985 staged the world's largest rock concert to combat starvation in Africa. "You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical, in a positive sense, in the approach to Africa since Kennedy," he said.
Maybe we should ban TV shows filmed in Canada.
I'm sure you realise that the southern part of the country is where everybody lives because it's warmer. You did know that...right?
Actually it where the arable land is . And a longer growing season because it is warmer in the summertime . But not as much day light as farther north. Which is bound to confuse somebody. :)
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