Thread: A Canadian asks "What have you done?"

At least one person north of the border "gets it." Couldn't have said it better myself.
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What Have you Done?

Posted By David Solway On April 5, 2010 @ 12:01 am In FrontPage
An open letter to Americans:

As a Canadian, I’ve been observing for some time now, with great concern and even greater disbelief, the political farce enacted day after day in your country. And I keep asking, what have you done? For it seems to me, and to many others as well, that you have embarked upon a truly destructive course that may eventually bring the United States to the brink of ruination.

What have you done? You have elected a president on the strength of an ellipsis, neglecting to fill in the three dots trailing after his every echoing jingle—“Yes we can”…what? You have credited a nimble spinner of tales, a pretty fellow with no significant experience of the real world of risk, hard work and the hazards of survival, a thug with a beguiling smile. You have elevated to the highest office in the land a man without discernible qualifications who is plunging the nation into unredeemable debt for generations to come. You have installed possibly the most consummate liar in POTUS history, who breaks campaign promises as if he were cracking eggs for the skillet and changes his mind almost daily like a weathervane on steroids. You have put your trust in an intellectual lightweight and geopolitical bungler who makes Jimmy Carter look like a paragon of acute intelligence, moral substance and rare diplomatic foresight.

What have you done? You have bought into a fraudulent narrative. You have made a Faustian bargain with a suave Mephistophelian who offers hope and change but delivers instead inevitable suffering and a violated people. As in all such compacts, the price for a brief state of euphoria is subsequent prolonged distress. You have given carte blanche to a man with a personal dossier blacked out in many places like a letter from the front, so as not, apparently, to divulge sensitive information. You have raised among you a man whose friends and influences would surely have precluded him from meriting your confidence had you paid attention to plain facts rather than to quasi-mystical incantations. You have anointed a man with a sinister agenda. You have voted for your historical nemesis who with his every move and decision renders you increasingly insecure in a violent and unforgiving world.

If you need a slogan to trigger a reaction, it should not be “Yes we can”—whatever that might conceivably have meant—but “What have we done?”—whose implications should now be obvious. I pray it is not too late to reverse the trajectory you have unthinkingly plotted for yourselves. It may be a shame to let a serious crisis go to waste, as your president’s intimate adviser cynically put it, but it would be a much greater shame to let a crisis reach the point of no return. And there is little doubt that you are now facing an impending crisis of the first magnitude, both domestically and globally.
Let us count the ways...

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Originally Posted by Sinopec

blah blah blah.

Ditto to you.

I love how this title begins with "A Canadian", as if that somehow gives him more merit than someone else.

I don't care if the guy is from Canada or Outer Mongolia, I pretty much agree with what he wrote.

We bought a pig in a poke. The poke was pretty and had a nice ribbon wrapped around it so we never looked to see what was inside and now we are stuck with a president who is hell bent on destroying the country. He insults our long term allies, cozzens up to those who wish us harm, promises to disarm us of our mose effective deterent, increases the national debt on an almost second by second basis, signs into law a bill that the American people were against, buys votes with taxpayer money and on and on and on.

The author is right to ask, "what have we done?".

Originally Posted by AgentM

I love how this title begins with "A Canadian", as if that somehow gives him more merit than someone else.

There is logical basis for that belief. He doesn't have a dog in the hunt. He should be more objective being a non-citizen of the U.S.

In any event, he is a Canadian.

Originally Posted by Missouri Mule

There is logical basis for that belief. He doesn't have a dog in the hunt. He should be more objective being a non-citizen of the U.S.

In theory maybe, in reality we are ideological like anyone else.

Originally Posted by AgentM

In theory maybe, in reality we are ideological like anyone else.

Canadian currency is now at parity with the U.S. Canada could be in theory self-sufficient of the U.S. with its natural resources. I don't think it is some big secret that Canadians harbor some resentment and/or envy of U.S. power and notoriety while Canada is seldom even mentioned in the U.S. news all that much even though we are the largest trading partner that Canada has.

I would think that Canadians would in general be inclined to "Schadenfreude" as they see us committing national suicide. But I could be wrong. Maybe they actually love America.