March 16, 2003

Fareed don't like it

Get a load of this exquisitely pathetic article about the big, bad USA and how awful it is that no one on Earth or in fact the universe including Centauri Prime likes us (except for a few toadies and sycophants) and how everyone is afraid of us, 'cos we have the temerity to be rich and powerful. I don't know what presents the more pitiful spectacle: the so-called majority of the world's population, collectively revealed to have neither a spine nor initiative; or Mr. Zakaria, who sounds like a teenage girl with low self-esteem who blames her unfashionable parents for her lack of a prom date.

I don't know what these people want. Actually, I do know what they want. They don't want Americans to be humble; they want Americans to be humiliated. And Zakaria, a writer I have kind of admired before, joins with them. You know what? He can go to hell.

I'm not even going to post any excerpts; I don't feel like sullying my blog with any more cowardly twaddle. Instead, read Charles Austin's able fisking.

Posted by Andrea Harris at March 16, 2003 10:25 PM
Comments

Gets old reading it. I think the only way we could make them happy is to just hang our heads in shame, but make sure we keep the money rolling and the military at the ready just in case they might need them.

Posted by: Patty at March 16, 2003 at 10:56 PM

I blogged on this yesterday, and I got my first ever irate Euro comment! I feel like I've arrived :) I'm sure hate mail is only a little bit away!

Posted by: Ith at March 17, 2003 at 01:36 PM

I'll agree with Fareed that we must be magnanimous in victory. As we always are.

Posted by: Anna at March 17, 2003 at 07:53 PM

Thanks for the link. I like your title better!

Posted by: Charles Austin at March 17, 2003 at 09:31 PM

Funny how Fareed can scream at the Republican administration while espousing Republican/libertarian positions:

"It can stop oversubsidizing American steelworkers, farmers and textile-mill owners, and open its borders to goods from poorer countries."

Apparently he wants to cut the wages of steelworkers, stop farm subsidies, quit propping up the textile industry, and implement free trade (from Asian sweatshops?)

I thought the lefties were against globalism and free-market capitalism.

Posted by: Ken Summers at March 18, 2003 at 09:32 AM

Fareed don't like it!
Rock the Casbah!
With that crazy Casbah sound!

(from the Clash)

Posted by: John Hysmith at March 18, 2003 at 11:39 AM

Fareed's no lefty by any stretch of the imagination.

Posted by: nate-dogg at March 18, 2003 at 05:33 PM