Imagine a well-respected writer in Canada writing this (below) in one of the top newspapers in the land without it being, you know, a “joke”. Even the title would have to be described as a “joke title”, here.
But alas Claudia Rosett is writing in the United States in the Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages and her column is, as usual, mandatory reading. I’m not trying to discourage you! I’m trying to spread hope!
Happy Days Are Here Again
America stands astride the world, stronger and more self-confident than ever.It’s always risky to celebrate security and good times, especially in an age when there is no way to rule out that along with the usual perils of life, we will suffer another terrorist attack. But this spring, more than 3 1/2 years after Sept. 11, it does seem that since that day America has weathered a rough passage awfully well. That, and with the cherry trees just done blooming in Washington and New York’s Central Park full of flowers (and, in the grand old tradition, amateur baseball teams), it feels worth a moment to stand back and observe that for all the usual ructions of politics and the more prominent idiocies of such institutions as Hollywood, academia and the imploding United Nations in our midst, rarely in recent decades has there been more sanity and self-respect abroad in this land.
The juxtaposition of what is the possible, reasonable, serious sentiment about one’s country—between that which can be expressed with a straight face in Canada and that in the United States—is really rather pathetic. But I still have great hope for my fantastic country of Canada. Hope springs eternal!
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