SUMAN PALIT COMMENTS on pro-American sentiment among recent immigrants:

I did not spend a greater part of my life working my fingers to the bone to come to America, and then to build a new life for myself and my family, to enjoy and cherish the special freedoms that are the hallmark of this country, only to watch an intellectually effete elite barter it all away to appease the culture-gods of Europe.! A few reminders to the multi-culti “blame-America” crowd. I am unlikely to be swayed by your liberal, upper-middle-class guilt over whatever horrors lie in this country’s past. I respect the legacy of those sins. I hope to learn from them, but never at the point of rendering myself impotent. I am not impressed by your oh-so-mendacious comparisons of Bush to Saddam to Hitler. I am disgusted by your preference for “stability” in Iraq over the freedom and ultimate goal of safety and happiness of the Iraqi people. I am also, utterly unconvinced by those who wish to remake America in a hollow image of Europe. If I wanted that I would have immigrated to France.

I feel the same way, and my ancestors (the non-Cherokee ones, anyway)were thrown out of decided to leave Europe centuries ago.