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A view of America from across the pond.
TweetI saw this posted on another board.
>Interesting that this comes from the UK's Daily Mirror.
>
>Message from England...
>
>No matter what your views on President Bush's statement of upcoming war,
>this, from an English journalist, is very interesting. Just a word of
>background,
>for those of you who aren't familiar with the UK's Daily Mirror. This is a
>
>notoriously left-wing daily that is normally not supportive of the
>Colonials across the Atlantic.
>
>Tony Parsons Daily Mirror September 11, 2002
>
>One year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting -- the mass
>murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless
>cruelty of the
>
>human race, September 11 was up there with Pol Pot's Mountain of Skulls in
>
>Cambodia or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage in the ****
>concentration
>
>camps. An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless
>that
>
>surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody deserves this fate.
>
>Surely there could be consensus: The victims were truly innocent, the
>
>perpetrators truly evil. But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is
>increasingly
>
>seen as America's comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased
>
>over the last year. There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA
>
>in this country; too loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much
>happier than
>
>Europeans - but it has become an epidemic. And it seems incredible to me.
>
>More than that, it turns my stomach.
>
>America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are
>bonded to the US by culture, language and blood. A little over half a
>century
>
>ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as well as
>their own.
>
>Have we forgotten so soon? And exactly a year ago, thousands of ordinary
>men,
>
>women and children - not just Americans, but from dozens of countries, were
>
>butchered by a small group of religious fanatics. Are we so quick to
>betray them?
>
>What touched the heart about those who died in the Twin Towers and on the
>planes, was that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's
>son and somebody's daughter, husbands, wives and children, some unborn.
>
>And these people brought it on themselves? Their nation is to blame for
>their
>meticulously planned slaughter?
>
>These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or
>Karachi
>
>or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The anti-American
>alliance
>
>is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the Americans for every ill
>in the
>
>Third World and conservatives suffering from power-envy, bitter that the
>world's
>
>only superpower can do what it likes without having to ask permission.
>
>The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
>September 11.
>
>Remember, remember - Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men
>
>phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before they were burned alive.
>Remember
>
>those people leaping to their deaths from the top of burning skyscrapers.
>
>Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive. Remember the smiling face
>
>of that beautiful little girl who was on one of the planes with her mum.
>
>Remember, remember - And realize that America has never retaliated for 9/11
>in anything like the way it could have. So a few al-Qaeda tourists got
>locked
>
>without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass the Kleenex... So some Afghan wedding
>
>receptions were shot up after they merrily fired their semi-automatics in a
>sky full
>
>of American planes? A shame, but maybe next time they should stick to
>confetti.
>
>AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot.
>That
>
>it didn't is a sign of strength. American voices are already being raised
>against
>
>attacking Iraq - that's what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic
>world will
>
>have a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How many
>Islamic
>
>leaders will have the guts to say that the mass murder of 9/11 was an
>abomination?
>
>When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving
>Palestinians
>
>were dancing in the street. America watched all of that - and didn't push
>the button.
>
>We should thank the stars that America is the most powerful nation in the
>world.
>
>I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a
>"war on terrorism."
>
>A real war.
>
>The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell," if
>America
>
>attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell like you
>wouldn't
>
>believe. The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode
>the face of
>
>the earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and
>the
>
>planned war on Iraq may be misconceived. But don't blame America for not
>
>bringing peace and light to these wretched countries. How many democracies
>
>are there in the Middle East or in the Muslim world? You can count them on
>the
>
>fingers of one hand - assuming you haven't had any chopped off for minor
>shoplifting.
>
>I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle.
>But I
>
>would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh. Above all,
>
>America is hated because it is what every country wants to be - rich, free,
>strong,
>
>open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past or religion or some caste
>system.
>
>America is the best friend this country ever had and we should start
>remembering
>
>that. Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to
>the loved ones
>
>of the men and women who leaped to their death from the burning towers.
>Tell it
>
>to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked planes or
>
>were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper. And tell it to the hundreds
>of young
>
>widows whose husbands worked for the New York Fire Department.
>
>To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein. Once
>
>we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and set
>up
>rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street. Save me the
>
>orange center, Oh Mighty One!
>
>Remember, remember, September 11 - One of the greatest atrocities in human
>history was committed against America. No, do more than remember. Never
>forget.
TweetThanks.
TweetThis is awesome!!!! and sooooooo true!!!!
Tweethell yea that shit is awesome great post.
FG Resident
TweetGood post...
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they are suppose to like, what they're suppose to buy, and what they're suppose to laugh at. You have Beavis and Butthead telling you what music you're allowed to like and not like, and you've got sitcoms that have canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is. People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves because America has raised them that way.
mod @ superiormuscle.com
Tweetvey nice post kid, thanks.
Established Resident
TweetGood post, thanx...
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you've forgotten the words."
Tweetfriggin brilliant!!! not to knock liberals but that is the most intelligent thing i have ever heard coming from a liberal. noam chomsky needs to read this!!!
Elite FG Resident
Tweetgood call............
Mod @ SuperiorMuscle
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