Letters to the Editor
moniker1250
Published Letters: 10
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Are we too stupid to be real?
[Read the article: Are we too gloomy about the economy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's take "Durian Joe's" brilliant statement:
"...the kind of top-notch society that Denmark and other social Democracies give their citizens -- the true First World countries, as opposed to the lame-ass second tier countries like the United States..."
Denmark leads the EU in alcoholism, and ALL of the EU have significant and growing social problems. A heartbreaking number of under-16 boozing Danish youth are part of that statistic.
That's not an attribute of a "top-notch society."
The World Health Organization reports that Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland (United Kingdom), Spain and Sweden have all experienced significant increases in suicide during the 20th Century.
Again, that's not an attribute of a "top-knotch society."
Perhaps Durian Joe and the other hate-America-first crowd on Salon.com should crack the books instead of inhaling the propagandist crack of the Loony Left.
Durian Joe, I invite you to go live in one of those "First World Countries" of the enlightened socialist democracies of Europe. If you are an American, and unless you are a multi-millionaire, I wager you will soon turn tail and retreat to America. Or, perhaps, you are one of those personality types willing to live in an environment where the governments, as you say, "give" their citizens a "top-notch society."
In America, the CITIZENS build the society, and we've done a damn good job of over the past two centuries. People who make a vital, energetic difference in America don't want the government to "give" them anything. And we do quite well.
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Flog it, baby
[Read the article: Obama should be proud to be named Hussein]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Only idiots on the far left and far right can be influenced by issues like this. Perhaps in his next column Juan Cole will find a subject with more meat... oops. I should say.. more lamb kebab that the inane Hussein issue.
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The advertising geniuses
[Read the article: Brand-aid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those marketers Jeff Yang quoted are the guys and gals who bring us vomiting babies, dripping hamburgers, and diarrhea in million-dallar TV ads. Jeff considers THEM thought leaders in international image and diplomacy? Those purveyors of boredom and mediocrity? The guys who helped addict hundreds of millions of people around the world to nicotene?
Those guys?
I would laugh if weren't so sad.
America's image is pretty good among the kids playing in Bagdad's streets, it's pretty good among the kids in African AIDS shelters, it's pretty good among the throngs of people trying to get here, and it's pretty good in the hearts and minds of our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's pretty good among investors worldwide and it's pretty good in the opinion of most Americans.
I could give a gnat's fart about the opinion of a French socialist or a London tabloid.
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tom pseudo-payne in the butt
[Read the article: Brand-aid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...America is perceived by the vast majority of the world as a warmongering bully..."
America is seen as a strong nation with the will to protect its homeland, its trade, and its allies. Unlike most of the socialist democracies of Western Europe.
"...a would-be empire..."
What do you mean "would be"? We are. Dig it. And we live in the era of Pax Americana.
"...a glutton for oil and material wealth..."
And generaous, and protective of our allies, and spiritual, and family-oriented, and patriotic, and literary, and agronomic, and scientific, and far more multi-cultural than any nation... In short, pretty damn human and far more complicated and diverse than you, apparently, can conceive of. Pity you.
"...driven by a dried up foul mouthed "hero" who's at least a decade past his expiration date..."
Spoken like a true, wobbly-kneed far-left bigot: Prejudice against older people, hatred of America, and demontrated political ignorance... all in one vitriolic letter.
Nice!