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July 06, 2006
Very good, Timmy. Check-plus!
This grade three writing assignment from "someone who has lived through Expo '67" absolutely begged to be ripped to shreds. Characteristic excerpt:
It is precisely this self-doubt, this weakness, that leads directly to our troops being in Afghanistan instead of Darfur.
We need to remind ourselves that in Lester B. Pearson's era, we used to be peacekeepers. In fact, he won a Nobel prize for it.
Now we don't see the point in maintaining that role anymore, or any other role for that matter, whether it be sticking up for the environment, globalization concerns, or the problems in our own backyard; no confidence, no guts.
We allow the slow dismantling of our internationally praised medicare (death by a thousand small cuts) because surely the American free enterprise system is superior — just like everything else they do.
I mean, holy shit. It doesn't get much simpler, in the pejorative sense, than that.
Anyway, the pseudonymous Edward Michael George has obliged the begging with a fairly comprehensive demolition of the piece in question.
Posted by Chris Selley at July 6, 2006 11:42 PM
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Anytime anyone mentions Expo 67, I immediately want to kill them.
Posted by: JKelly at July 7, 2006 03:01 AM
Expo 67.
Posted by: Jason at July 7, 2006 09:26 AM