Is prevalent in my mind. Disgust with the U.S. attitude that allowed this kind of thing to even be thinkable. The global "everybody's equal, so long as their money is green" mindset. Even Canadians don't like us; we pretend that the Japanese, the Europeans, the Mexicans, etc all like us because they say they do, but they like our money and whatever else they can use us for; they don't respect our customs or our culture, they don't respect our government, they don't respect our business. Maybe with good reason, maybe not. But if we had let ourselves acknowledge this truth, we might have followed policies which placed American interests first. Nobody respects a doormat, nobody respect someone who tries to buy affection. But they do respect a closed fist. They don't like it any better, but they don't mess with the guy wielding it. They don't try to fight him, they don't try to use him.
Hopefully this will generate a little healthy xenophobia in the U.S. Unfortunately it's liable to generate massive, hysterical, misdirected xenophobia.
The other thought running through my mind concerns the reports of people driving victims to the hospital in packed vans and SUVs... good thing we haven't all been converted to fuel-efficient go-carts like the ecophreaks want, huh?
I can just picture Algore staring at where the WTC used to be, hands alongside his head, a look of horror on his face, and the words screamed from his open mouth, "Holy crap! Think of what all that pollution will do to the environment!"
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