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Co świat myśli o Amerykanach

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We understand your pain

JIM COYLE

To our American friends:

The first thing you need to know, today more than any day, is that we love you.
That's why we're here. And if some of us have said anything harsh to you
recently, it's only because we care and it pains us to see you hurting yourself
this way.

We want to help you help yourself before it's too late. We know you like the
movies, like them so much that you sometimes elect actors as presidents and
governors. So maybe Hollywood will help you see what it is we see.

Remember that scene in Liar, Liar? The one where Jim Carrey beats the hell out
of himself in the courthouse bathroom?

That's sort of what you look like to us these days. You seem to be at war with
yourselves. You're doing yourselves so much damage it's painful to watch. Maybe
it takes a Canadian like Carrey to help you see it.

But, one day at a time, starting today, you can stop. We promise you. We've been
there.

No, no, no, no, no. Everybody doesn't hate you. We still think you're the
greatest show on Earth. You are. Really.

It's just that lately, well, for about four years now, you haven't been
yourself. One minute there are these delusions of grandeur and the belief that
you're agents of God. Then, five minutes later, there are the panic attacks and
you're all out buying duct tape.

No. Sit down and listen to us.

It's not true that it's nobody else's business and you're only hurting yourself.
Everyone and everything you touch is affected by you. All your friends see it.
The U.N. The Europeans. Us. We can't all be wrong, can we?

You've already driven away so many friends. You're getting more and more
isolated, more reclusive, afraid even to come out of the house.

It's time to face up to some harsh realities. You're the nicest folks in the
world when you're in your right mind. But let you at the self-righteousness and
superpower stuff, and it's Jekyll and Hyde.

The truth is, you've been behaving lately like one of the world's larger,
open-air lunatic asylums. It's God this, God that, God bless us, the Good Book
says. But to everyone else you look like a theme park for the Seven Deadly Sins.

All around you, Pride, Greed, Gluttony and Anger are going off the charts. And
that's just the political talk shows on your cable-news channels. You want Lust,
Envy, Sloth? Check out your prime-time programming.

No, listen to us, you're not fine. You're not seeing things clearly. Your
perceptions are all wonky.

Sometimes your speech seems slurred. (You can never seem to get your tongue
around the word nuclear.)

Sometimes you make no sense at all. ("(Our enemies) never stop thinking about
new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.")

Sometimes you seem paranoid. ("You're either with us or against us.")

What's that?

Well, if it's true that you're as sharp as you ever were, how come you were
flying that "Mission Accomplished" sign before the tough sledding in Iraq had
even begun?

If you're so guided by God, how come you can't find what you're looking for
(Osama) and spent all your energy hunting for something (weapons of mass
destruction) that never existed?

And how come you end up doing the last thing on Earth — disgracing yourself at
Abu Ghraib abroad, debasing your own civil liberties at home — that you'd want
to do?

If that isn't a sign you're out of control, tell us what is.

Yes, we know. You can't imagine life if you make the kind of changes we're
talking about. But face facts. If you keep doing what you've done, you're going
to keep getting what you've got.

The good news is that there is another way. Yes, change will be difficult.
Withdrawal can be painful. For awhile, you'll want to pick a fight with everyone
you run into, quote Scripture every five minutes, take money from the poor and
give it to the rich.

But trust us, you'll get over it.

Up here, we had a leader a lot like the one you have now. Didn't claim to be
getting instructions from God. But he did have a Common Sense Revolution he
treated like something chiselled on tablets.

And you know what? He and his crowd have been gone for more than a year now. And
we survived. In fact, we hardly ever think about them any more. And things are
actually a lot calmer and happier around here.

Oh, sure, it may not be as exciting. But the living-room furniture isn't getting
trashed every time somebody comes home with a snootful of tax cuts or out of his
head and raving about welfare cheats.

And there are a lot of things worse than a bit of peace and quiet and a chance
to get to know yourself again.

You might remember why it was we all liked you so much in the first place.