Flutterby™! : More Canadian Musings

In honor of my linking to Let's Be Personal, Allan Connery passed along a National Post commentary on how Canadians view Americans.

Canadians know Americans as well as an outsider can, far better than those who unleashed the beast yesterday. To borrow from Winston Churchill in Britain's darkest hour, a half-century ago, we have been on their beaches, we have flown into their landing grounds, we have played in their fields and on their streets. They are our friends, and if as friends do, we have mocked them and caricatured them and been too often too quick to separate ourselves from them in our own pained quest for identity, we know the stuff of which they are made.