MOTM

--- In motm@y..., "Mike B. Fisher" <mbfisher@i...> wrote:

In Italy we are all shocked for what has happened. Many of us did even see "live" the second airplane hitting the second tower.
I think we are all praying for the victims and my personal thoughts did constantly flow towards these wonderful people who are the american people now so brutally offended.
..only I think the content of the article, paraphrased or not is a rather simplicistic way of interpreting hystorical facts. My respect to the american role in many occasions but I think we know just 1% of what really happens in the complicated interrelations among governments.
Anyway I'm also convinced that the american people are wonderful and generous people.
BTW I think it's time now for the russians to start producing their own modulars after the planes :)
Enrico Italy





> Apologies for the OT nature of this post, but I feel that this is an
> appropriate time to share these sentiments. If you agree, please pass these
> words along to others.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> > TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
> >
> > The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
> >
> > Its subject is "America: The Good Neighbor"
> >
> > Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
> > remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a
> > 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."
> >
> >  Stand proud, America!