MJ Posted November 20, 2003 Report Share Posted November 20, 2003 (edited) While we have your attention, Mr. President... It's not often that we get the chance to speak directly to the most powerful man in the world. So as George Bush lands in Britain for his first state visit, we asked 60 Brits and Americans to make the most of it. Dear Mr President, Today you arrive in my country for the first state visit by an American president for many decades, and I bid you welcome. You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly on morality and that your recent actions preclude you from the club. You opposed and destroyed the world's most blood-encrusted dictator. This is quite unforgivable. I beg you to take no notice. The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century. Broadly speaking, it hates your country first, mine second. Eleven years ago something dreadful happened. Maggie was ousted, Ronald retired, the Berlin wall fell and Gorby abolished communism. All the left's idols fell and its demons retired. For a decade there was nothing really to hate. But thank the Lord for his limitless mercy. Now they can applaud Saddam, Bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il... and hate a God-fearing Texan. So hallelujah and have a good time. Frederick Forsyth Novelist November 18th, 2003 EDIT: Just realised that I had forgotten to provide the link. Here it is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,...1087583,00.html Edited November 21, 2003 by MJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted November 20, 2003 Report Share Posted November 20, 2003 So you are back doing your old "hairy chested tub thumping" routine, eh, Martin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 Careful steve... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 Can't blame him though. Literary figures right of center are increasingly lonely and melancholic. They don't have the luxury of congregating in such intellectual gangs as the Bloomsbury Circle (hardly a loss in my opinion). His novels are a sham and the screenplays donned by his hand are even worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 Can't blame him though. Literary figures right of center are increasingly lonely and melancholic. They don't have the luxury of congregating in such intellectual gangs as the Bloomsbury Circle (hardly a loss in my opinion). His novels are a sham and the screenplays donned by his hand are even worse. And it has been a long time since Frederick Forsyth has been a literary figure! Look at him now - a sad, old, has-been reduced to writing imaginary letters to the president. I thought only pre-teen American schoolkids wrote "Dear Mr President" letters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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