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Date Posted: 20:05:54 09/15/01 Sat
Author: jim
Subject: the good neighbor, by gordon sinclair
In reply to: sumadart_son 's message, "world peace" on 22:54:56 09/13/01 Thu

America: The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given to a remarkable
editorial
broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
commentator.

What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks:

"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!

and if the afghani's or the palestinians should suddenly suffer typhoons or earthquakes or volcanic devastation, i'd bet it all that the usa would be there to help out again, because that's who we are!

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