Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1925-1000573738-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12634 invoked by uid 510); 15 Sep 2001 17:09:18 -0000 Received: from n7.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.57) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 17:09:18 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1925-1000573738-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by fj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2001 17:08:59 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 17:08:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 82424 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 14:24:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 14:24:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 14:24:00 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id HAA04222 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 07:23:59 -0700 Message-Id: <200109151423.HAA04222@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 07:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Canadian.tribute.to.the.United.States] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES (from a Canadian newspaper) 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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