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Glad you are not an American? So am I


If I visited your country for merely three months, I wouldn’t think I knew so much as to tell its citizens who were born and raised there how they should live their lives.

Perhaps you need to learn some GRATITUDE for the thousands of American soldiers buried in France who gave their lives so that you don’t speak Deutsche today.

Since you obviously despise this country and its people, why are you here? Are you paying your own way, or are you receiving a free education at our expense?

I know I wouldn’t waste my money on something so dissatisfying to me as UTM apparently is to you.

If France is so wonderful, why would you want to come to an American university unless a French education would be inferior to an American one?

As for this campus being a cozy prison (requiring students to be punctual and submit assignments by a deadline) it sounds like a lesson in real life to me.

You said French students protest by going on strike and hitting the streets.

Aren’t the freedom fries and the Dixie Chicks boycott a much less disruptive way of making a point?

“The last thing that I find hard to understand is all the fuss over the freedom of speech?”

Quite a statement coming from someone who is using that right to insult her host!

Americans have the RESPECT and TOLERANCE to not only admit you but also provide a venue for your criticism – just think about that.

Regarding what President Bush will be remembered for: possibly most of all for pointing out French diplomatic duplicity. Ask your French U.S. History teacher if using U.N. vetoes to cover up business dealings would be an example of tying foreign and domestic policies together. I can’t wait to see the “Made in France” labels on the WMDs.

You’re glad you’re not an American? So am I.

Keep thinking…but from now on try using some logic.

Bevin Watson is a sophomore Human Learning (K-8) major from Clarksville