America's Downfall is the Free World's Downfall

God save us from those perennially provincial Canadians, those pseudo-nationalists of jaundiced chauvinism who are so visionless and muted in their understanding of the world politic that they inanely forget how inextricably Canada's well being and indeed the well being of the free world hangs on a solvent and militarily powerful U.S.. These self-satisfied cretins who forget the obvious details that are so long established and dependable that they have been stupidly allowed to be reduced to denigrated clichés. They take for granted the fact that the American people, for all their narcissistic self-absorption, are our friends, neighbors, largest trading partner and often our relatives sitting below the longest undefended border in the world. Who have fought side by side with us in two world wars as well as several local conflagrations. Who share most of our ideological, economic, religious and social values and particularly our love of freedom and democracy. Furthermore, they, unlike us, are a global superpower who particularly since WW11, have striven vigorously if sometimes ham-handedly, to serve as the global bulwark against totalitarianism be it fascism, communism and the most oppressive of all, Islamism. The U.S. is so hated by the totalitarian regimes and ideologues of the world because they understand better than many Canadians that should the U.S. fail the rest of the free world, and particularly Canada, will be almost defenceless and ripe for the picking. To paraphrase the title of Mr. Black's article above, should the U.S. fail, Canada’s front-row seat for the American disaster will be for the inevitable Canadian disaster as well. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/09/22/conrad-black-canadas-front-row-seat-for-the-american-disaster/