[thechat] FW: Tribute to the USA

[Dave McLean]

On 9/13/01 11:45, Richard Bennett wrote:

> <<Does any other
> <<country in the world have a plane to equal the
> <<Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the
> <<Douglas DC10?
> <<If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the
> <<International lines except Russia fly American
> <<Planes?
> 
> Obviously North-America buys North-American, or the author would be aware of
> Airbus, who - according to the graph at the bottom of this page:
> http://members.nbci.com/ejine/finance.html actually sell more planes than
> Boeing.
> Oh, it seems Air Canada uses more than 100 Airbuses too:
> http://www.aircanada.com/about-us/our-fleet/ , even United Airlines use
> Airbus: http://www.ual.com/site/primary/0,10017,1427,00.html

Yeah, I was going to pick up on this, but I knew that I didn't have the time
or the research to back me up.  I am a Canadian and I think this article is
not only totally out of context, but solely one man's biased and logically
flawed opinion.
 
> <<Can you name
> <<me even one time when someone else raced to the
> <<Americans in trouble?
> I'm sure there's plenty of examples, but they are usually not so
> high-profile.
> I'm a guest in Belgium, and I read in the paper yesterday Belgium is sending
> 6 army burns-specialists to US now. (amongst other things)
> Only 6 you ask? Well, Belgium has 10 mil inhabitants, US some 272 mil. if US
> send 162 burns specialists somewhere, it is a lot more obvious.
> I know Belgium sends at least a few planes of aid every time a disaster
> occurs, and have medical personnel working for free all over the world, but
> naturally any aid from the US is on a larger scale, and receives more
> publicity.

Canada has sent aid to the United States on so many occasions it's not even
funny.  We send our Red Cross experts during all manifests of natural
disasters.  In 1992 we even sent hundreds and hundreds of train cars full of
lumber to help rebuild the South East after Hurricane Hugo. Yesterday our
DART team of earthquake dogs & rescue experts, who found many survivors in
recent quakes in Turkey, were dispatched to New York.

I'm not trying to toot Canada's horn, but I find this article was poorly
referenced and not exactly credible without a date of publication or any
other bibliographical information.

No offence to you Scott, I know what you were trying to do, but if we're
going to be fair, we might as well analyse that article too.

-d
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