[MadIvan]

The Sunday Times is reprinting this article which originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Well worth a re-post, I thought.

Regards, Ivan

[katnip]

With all due respect to Britain & Spain course :)

[spodefly]

BTTT!

[Dolphy]

I have just finished reading Fallaci's book, The Rage and The Pride. I highly recommend it, in fact I have just ordered several copies for friends. A quote from her...

The fact is that America is a very special country, my dear. A country to really envy, yes, a country to really be jealous of. And for reasons which have nothing to do with her richness, her immense power, or her military supremacy. Do you know why? Because America is a nation that arose from a need of the soul, the need for a Patria, and for the most sublime idea ever conceived in the West: the idea of Liberty married to the idea of Equality.