America the Beautiful

A friend of mine directed me to this fantastic quote:

I will warn you that this book is set totally in other countries and therefore some scenes may be hard to read.

The quote can be found in context here; its the first review (at the moment) on that page.

The whole review sounds like its written by a semi-literate, low-IQ high school student or an average American.

Ah, Americans, you gotta love them (lest they invade you or something). Their collective ignorance of the outside world ("other countries" how audacious to write such a book) coupled with their aggressive foreign policy is a joy to behold.

What are "totally other countries" anyway? Is Canada a somewhat other country? Is Iraq a somewhat American country?

I can imagine two yanks reading the review:

Yank One: What does it mean 'other countries'?
Yank Two: Its a typo, there isn't meant to be an 'r' in 'counties'.

My friend who gave me the link commented "Must be hard to be American; to know you are at the centre of the universe but everyone in the universe hates you". What a misguided thing to say. Americans are too ignorant to know that anyone exists, let alone hates them.

Oh well, as long as the got big guns and bombs and the indescretion to use them, they'll continue having 'allies' in the world, just as every school yard bully has allies- those who know to "keep your friends close and your enemies closer".

I just hope that the fascism that is oozing out of the US wont corrupt the rest of the world via the incessant Cultural Imperialism that America spews out.

What does a 5,000 pound gorilla do? Anything it wants.