Writing for the New York Times about WikiLeaks, Thomas Friedman, the author of “The World is Flat” and the winner of several Pulitzer prizes, recently wrote a humorous but painfully honest post, From WikiChina, of what China’s Washington Embassy e-mails to Beijing may say of America.
I had to resist copying Friedman’s entire post but will point out a few of his gems.
“They fight over things like – we are not making this up – how and where an airport security officer can touch them.”
“It seems as if the Republicans are so interested in weakening President Obama that they are going to scuttle a treaty that would have fostered closer U.S.-Russian cooperation on issues like Iran.”
“But the Americans are oblivious. They travel abroad so rarely that they don’t see how far they are falling behind. Which is why we at the embassy find it funny that Americans are now fighting over how “exceptional” they are.”
“Most of the Republicans just elected to Congress do not believe what their scientists tell them about man-made climate change. America’s politicians are mostly lawyers — not engineers or scientists like ours — so they’ll just say crazy things about science and nobody calls them on it.”
If you want to have a good laugh or possibly shed tears because this truth is painful, I suggest you read all of Friedman’s post.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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Seems like a never ending love and hate relationship. And you have been laughing haven’t you. Must say that I don’t understand your intelligent humor, but I had good laughs too listening to one babbling man on radio. I have a lot to learn about you Americans to understand this thing going on and what you really are writing about.