Dear Neal Gabler, Feel Free To Leave

... your departure would undoubtedly make America an even better place.

Multiculturalist Neal wrote today on boston.com that the US is not exceptional.

There is nothing wrong with self-satisfaction or national pride. But the incessant trumpeting of our national superiority to every other country in the world is more than just off-putting and insulting. It is infantile, like the vaunting of a schoolyard bully that his Dad is better than your Dad. It is wrong. And it might be dangerous both to ourselves and to the rest of the world.

Err, yes. Dangerous. I'm sure of that. I mean, look how dangerous we've been so far, what with our garrisons of troups in Paris, Marseilles and Lyon of Occupied France. And think of how we've turned all of Kyoto into one giant slave-labor camp, devoted to the manufacture of Snuggies.

How many more Japanese laborers must we kill to manufacture cuddly warmth so we can watch "Dancing with the Stars" in comfort?
I'm sorry. I accidentally entered poor Neal's delusionary world for a moment there. The truth of the matter, at least for my family tree, is that my ancestors escaped some pretty lousy situations to get here. We thrived while the ones we left behind didn't. Despite mountains of evidence, Neal still insists on equality between nations. Neal needs to study some statistical analysis before he writes about this again. To suggest we're equivalent to, say, Ghana or Bosnia or even mighty Italy, is a pretty tough sell in the face of the facts.

However, if we give Neal and his multiculti buddies a little time, we might be able to legitimately claim equality with Argentina.