Note: For the most part, even though I am the home of “The Little Known Blogger” with a minimal readership, I try to honor intellectual property rights. A friend sent me this opinion piece from the Irish Times. I could not find a link to it that was not behind a pay wall. Because I found this oped so spot on until such time…
Irish Times
April 25, 2020
By Fintan O’Toole
Editorial
THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT
Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity. Continue reading “USA is pitied”