Yesterday was my birthday and the wife bought me the book How to Be RIght: The Essential Guide to Making Lefy Liberals History by James Delingpole
It is an amusing glossary of all that is wrong with the UK and the world. Very funny. One definition that jumped out at me last night as I was reading, really hit home (as I used to be just like this):
Americans, Self-Hating
'Gee, please don't hate us. We didn't vote for the guy. We're as embarrassed by our lame duck president and our terrible foreign policy as the rest of you.' If I had a dollar for every American I'd heard coming up with this self-hating, self-exculpatory guff, I'd be richer than Bill Gates. What I want to say to these panty-waists - what indeed I do say to these panty-waists is: 'Get a grip, panty-waists. Like it or not you are the world's only hyper power. With power comes certain responsibilities. And since fundamentalist Islam has declared war on you and all the things you stand for, it is not an option for you to sit on the sidelines buried in your Noam Chomsky or Michael Moore and pretend it's not happening. Claiming moral equivalence between the crimes of George W. Bush and the tyrannical regimes he's trying to overthrow may strike the right note in New York Times columns and Ivy League common rooms, but doesn't address the problem. Islamism hates America. It wants to destroy you. Mouthing fine-sounding liberal pieties is not going to make your enemies like you more. It just makes them despise your decadence.'
Well said, that man.
Hey!
Yesterday was also the Silver Vixen's birthday. No wonder we get on.
Posted by: Gorse Fox | 22 November 2007 at 12:41
Cool.
Posted by: James G | 22 November 2007 at 12:45