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7.12.2005 ||> Fwd: Your email is not as cool as you think
I have gotten this forwarded e-mail two or three times since last week. Everyone thinks it is so cool, and it just makes me angry when I read it. You have probably seen it: it's a speech that apparently someone somewhere wants the president to give. In the speech, this president makes a list of countries that supported us and countries that haven't and cuts off all aid to the latter. We also apparently become very isolationistic and don't give a shit about the rest of the world.
In essence: it's bullshit perpetuated by a bunch of people who have no idea what foreign policy is about. First off, I am so sick of this pseudo tough talk like, "You're with us or against us." It's common for countries to disagree on sticky issues. America refuses to join the Kyoto Treaty, France refuses to help us in Iraq. People are allowed a different point of view, especially when cultural values come into play. And saying that Canada should stop "pissing us off for a change"? What the hell did they ever do except say the word "about" funny?
Also, there seems to be two different versions: one where the president drills in Alaska and sends Americans who don't agree with him to France. Thank god agreeing with the government is not a prerequisite of living here. I'd still be teaching English abroad. The other version is simply xenophobic without the pollution and the violation of citizen rights.
There's more I could go off on about this e-mail, but I'll just add this. Don't ever expect to be taken seriously if you end a note with:
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.I actually thank the Louisiana Purchase and the fact that the Spanish never came more north than southern California for my ability to read English, thank you very much.
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