Wednesday, September 11, 2002 |
09:26 - True Colors
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/001943.html
|
(top) |
I wonder whether this is happening in France or Germany or Canada or Belgium?
Probably it is. But the degree of it is the question-- how spontaneous is it? How heartfelt? How unalloyed by suffixes of "But you have to understand..."?
I remember speeches coming out of Canada a year ago to the effect that Canada was standing by us at this time of need, and I remember Glenn Reynolds saying "When the chips are down, you learn who you can count on. I won't forget this." Britain has certainly shown the same spirit now, a year later, now that the morality is a lot more muddled. I'd be curious to know what everybody else is doing... or if it's just Britain.
Michael Drout posts this in the comments on the linked article:
"Between us there can be no word of giving or taking, nor of reward; for we are brethren... and never has any league of peoples been more blessed, so that neither has ever failed the other, nor shall fail."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Now that's interestingly apt.
|
|