You are entitled to your opinions and I am to mine.
But lest you forget:-
1. thanks to the Distant Early Warning system located in Canada's Arctic North, you guys were able to breathe and sleep a whole lot better for many years;
2. I did not presumptuously assume a hallowed right to the protection of the US umbrella: I am where I am by virtue of my geographical location. As for US protection, sometimes the "cure" was worse than the "disease". Vietnam was a case in point (the US left it in shambles), another was the failure to do away with Saddam;
3. as for the so-called burdens, Canada has had its share in a number of places, notably in Europe and in Korea (but do note that the population of Canada is only about 1/9th that of the US);
4. Canadians had participated in the assembly of the first atomic bomb and other vital engineering projects, e.g., the indispensable arm of the Space Shuttle or "Canadarm" was a Canadian achievement and success and a very significant contribution to the space endeavour.
I may be a hypocrite, a liar and and a deceiver. So what? Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know, eh? <ggg> Since when did you and/or your kinfolk cease being hypocritical and imperfect? Never at all since the morning of time?????? Always perfect, I suppose?
Go read the book, The Ugly American </exec/obidos/ASIN/0393318672/qid=1000324238/sr=1-2/ref=sc_b_2/107-5306654-6861360>
by Eugene Burdick, William J. Lederer,
and you will be a lot wiser person and become tolerant of others' points of views and understand where others are coming from, instead of ever being the unmitigating/compulsive, intolerant, arrogant and conceited bigot that you have been.
Anyway, let me reiterate: You are entitled to your opinions and I am to mine.
If you must have the last word, it is yours. Of course, that depends on whether you wish to save your breath. |
