Immigrant song
02.12.2003Blogger Suman Palit posted this:
I did not spend a greater part of my life working my fingers to the bone to come to America, and then to build a new life for myself and my family, to enjoy and cherish the special freedoms that are the hallmark of this country, only to watch an intellectually effete elite barter it all away to appease the culture-gods of Europe! A few reminders to the multi-culti "blame-America" crowd. I am unlikely to be swayed by your liberal, upper-middle-class guilt over whatever horrors lie in this country's past. I respect the legacy of those sins. I hope to learn from them, but never at the point of rendering myself impotent. I am not impressed by your oh-so-mendacious comparisons of Bush to Saddam to Hitler. I am disgusted by your preference for "stability" in Iraq over the freedom and ultimate goal of safety and happiness of the Iraqi people. I am also, utterly unconvinced by those who wish to remake America in a hollow image of Europe. If I wanted that I would have immigrated to France, ne pensez-vous pas?
Yeah, what he said. If I hear one more suburban trust fund baby who's never been to Latin American and can't even speak Spanish preach to me about the horrors of globalization ... I swear I'm gonna scream.
And here's more on French ingratitude. Only ten years after the Second World War, fifteen years after France surrendered to Nazi Germany w/o a major battle (and then collaborated w/ rounding up Jews and communists), after its "allies" bled themselves at places like Omaha Beach on its behalf, De Gaulle's government demanded the immediate removal of all US troops from French soil. President Eisenhower's response was brilliant: "What about the dead ones?"
Posted by Miguel at 04:07 PM