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Home Front: Culture Wars
Whiny liberal egghead on why they hate us!
2004-07-29
EFL. easily FISKed. I would, except my browser (Safari) won't allow me to use effects. good luck!
Waking Up From the American Dream By SASHA ABRAMSKY
Last year I visited London and stumbled upon an essay in a Sunday paper written by Margaret Drabble, one of Britain's pre-eminent ladies of letters.
Ummm... She's a nut, isn't she?
"My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable," she wrote. "It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world."
At least you're fashionable...
The essay continued in the same rather bilious vein for about a thousand words, and as I read it, two things struck me: The first was how appalled I was by Drabble's crassly oversimplistic analysis of what America was all about, of who its people were, and of what its culture valued; the second was a sense somewhat akin to fear as I thought through the implications of the venom attached to the words of this gentle scribe of the English bourgeoisie. After all, if someone whose country and class have so clearly benefited economically from the protections provided by American military and political ties reacts so passionately to the omnipresence of the United States, what must an angry, impoverished young man in a failing third world state feel?
Indigestion?
Posted by:Brett_the_Quarkian

#9  She wants sympathy? She can find it in the dictionary between "shit" and "syphillis."

As for Nelson, maybe he should think about his wife's "necklaces." Those were atrocities.
Posted by: growler   2004-07-30 12:19:32 PM  

#8  Fine, fine fisking, Fred. A work of art.
Posted by: Brett_the_Quarkian   2004-07-29 11:46:09 PM  

#7  Whomever did the FINE fisking, thank you! I just can't seem to get Safari (OS X) to allow me to format text.
Posted by: Brett_the_Quarkian   2004-07-29 11:38:47 PM  

#6  Fred, truly one our your best rants ever.

To these loons, for a few glorious days in 2001 our nation reached the exalted status of 'victim.' The left was on board and the Euros loved us.

Then we started kicking and just plain ruined it.
Posted by: JAB   2004-07-29 11:06:38 PM  

#5  No question in my mind, the writer is correct about one thing, the 21st century will be about bringing America down.
Posted by: virginian   2004-07-29 8:53:05 PM  

#4  Never forget. Reject appeasement. Get mad. Get seriously pissed off. Stay that way until everyone who wants us dead is dead.
Posted by: .com   2004-07-29 8:50:59 PM  

#3  "In the years since I stood on my rooftop in Brooklyn watching the World Trade Center towers burn so apocalyptically, I have spent at least a part of every day wrestling with a host of existential questions. "

How about this one, existentialist: how can the overwhelming solidarity the rest of the world felt for us on September 11th have been so easily dissolved?

I got your answer for you: it wasn't genuine solidarity in the first place. It was a show you put on for each other to convince each other how advanced, how sympathetic, how humane you were, concerned with the tragedy of others, while in your hearts, as the author has exposed, you secretly had the "craving to see America... humbled". I would go further-you wanted to see it suffer.

Don't imagine we don't see through you.
Posted by: jules 2   2004-07-29 8:43:49 PM  

#2  Truly a classic rant, Fred.
Posted by: 11A5S   2004-07-29 8:30:45 PM  

#1  In the immediate aftermath of September 11, an outpouring of genuine, if temporary, solidarity from countries and peoples across the globe swathed America in an aura of magnificent victimhood.

Magnificent victimhood? No fuckin' thanks, lady. You want to wallow in it, feel free. Count me out, looney tune.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-07-29 8:30:31 PM  

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