Thank you for this. One get a little weary constantly hearing how they are the bad guys. -s On Wednesday 12 September 2001 03:37 pm, jennifer wrote: > >This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth > > sharing. > > >America: The Good Neighbor. > > > > > >Widespread but only partial news coverage was given > >recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from > >Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television > >commentator. What follows is the full text of his > >trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional > >Record: > > > > > >"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the > >Americans as the most generous and possibly the least > > > >appreciated people on all the earth. > > > > > >Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and > >Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the > >Americans who poured in billions of dollars and > >forgave other billions in debts. None of these > >countries is today paying even the interest on its > >remaining debts to the United States. > > > > > >When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it > >was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward > > > >was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of > >Paris. I was there. I saw it. > > > > > >When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United > > > >States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 > >American communities were flattened by tornadoes. > >Nobody helped. > > > > > >The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped > >billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now > >newspapers in those countries are writing about the > >decadent, warmongering Americans. > > > > > >I'd like to see just one of those countries that is > >gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar > > > >build its own airplane. Does any other country in the > > > >world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the > > > >Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why > >don't they fly them? Why do all the International > >lines except Russia fly American Planes? > > > > > >Why does no other land on earth even consider putting > > > >a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese > >technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about > > German > > >technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about > >American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - > >not once, but several times and safely home again. > > > > > >You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs > > > >right in the store window for everybody to look at. > >Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. > > > >They are here on our streets, and most of them, > > unless > > >they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American > > > >dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. > > > > > >When the railways of France, Germany and India were > >breaking down through age, it was the Americans who > >rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the > >New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an > >old caboose. Both are still broke. > > > > > >I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to > > > >the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me > >even one time when someone else raced to the > > Americans > > >in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even > > > >during the San Francisco earthquake. > > > > > >Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one > >Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get > >kicked around. They will come out of this thing with > >their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled > >to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating > >over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one > > > >of those."
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