But what the hell is this world coming too?

Metallica, Fight Fire with Fire

Tragedy has struken the United States the likes we have never seen before. Our lands besmerched, our people killed in a act of pety hostility. As the smoke clears, the fires die down, we tally the death toll, and say praise for those who still live. We wonder why, how could someone do this? We question the mind set that actually thought that this act of cowardice was in any way a act of God. So now we stand our ground, and we are not alone. Our country in this moment of dispare, we find many to stand at our side...

Secretary-General George Robertson said the U.S. would receive support for military action from its 18 NATO partners if it is found the assaults were committed by foreign nationals.

It is the first time in 52 years that the alliance has invoked Article V -- the NATO self-defence charter that says if one member state is under attack all other member nations would defend it.

The decision opens the way for NATO military and logistic support to any U.S. retaliation

CNN News

It is good to see we have support of such stature, and from many non NATO countries as well.

Do to the recent tragedy, I'm not in the mood to write much, because I just don't feel like going off on the rant I feel inside me for this shit. So here is something that was sent to me I thought I would like to share......

TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.

America: The Good Neighbor.

Widespread but only partial news coverage was given

recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from

Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television

Commentator. What follows is the full text of his

trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional

Record:

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the

Americans as the most generous and possibly the

least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany,

Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy

were lifted out of the debris of war by the

Americans who poured in billions of dollars and

forgave other billions in debts.

None of these countries is today paying even the

interest on its remaining debts to the United

States. When France was in danger of collapsing in

1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and

their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the

streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the

United States that hurries in to help. This spring,

59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes.

Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman

Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged

countries. Now newspapers in those countries are

writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.

I'd like to see just one of those countries that is

gloating over the erosion of the United States

dollar build its own airplane. Does any other

country in the world have a plane to equal the

Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the

Douglas DC10?

If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the

International lines except Russia fly American

Planes? Why does no other land on earth even

consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You

talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios.

You talk about German technocracy, and you get

automobiles. You talk about American technocracy,

and you find men on the moon - not once, but several

times - and safely home again.

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put

theirs right in the store window for everybody to

look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued

and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most

of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are

getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to

spend here.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were

breaking down through age, it was the Americans who

rebuilt them When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the

New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an

old caboose. Both are still broke.

I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced

to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name

me even one time when someone else raced to the

Americans in trouble? I don't think there was

outside help even during the San Francisco

earthquake.

Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one

Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get

kicked around. They will come out of this thing

with their flag high. And when they do, they are

entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are

gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada

is not one of those."

I'll be back to actually write something tomorow...

LATER

It's about time - Wednesday, Jul. 07, 2004
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A great loss - Monday, Oct. 20, 2003
a terrible announcement. - Tuesday, Sept. 09, 2003
Chrome speaks: - Friday, Sept. 05, 2003