Blankley on the American personality

Quote of the day, from Tony Blankley:

The American personality might be characterized as an easygoing, sentimental, fair-minded ruthlessness. We tie yellow ribbons ‘round the old oak tree at the same moment we dispatch a wing of B-52s to carpet-bomb the enemy. No murderer in the world gets as many appeals from his conviction as an American murderer. But when we have finished being fair (about the same length of time that a French murderer has to spend in prison before being released), we fry him.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 27, 2003 01:49 AM | Send