[NYC-L] look what this guy has to say about us

[Asti Pilika]

This guy is a retard. The article lacks a controlling
idea.

I happened to be an interpreter during this exercise
and I can tell you that those escapes ruined all the
hard work the platoon did throughout the month.

There is still hope, though, because not all the
cadets escaped without permission.

--- Dea2608 at aol.com wrote:
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>   6/30/98
> G.D. Gearino: Albanians are true Americans 
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>      If any of the missing Albanians are reading
> this newspaper, I have a 
> message for them: Bless you, boys. I hope we never
> find you. 
>      As you may remember from recent reports, the
> missing Albanians are 
> military cadets who arrived in the United States a
> while back to participate 
> in a NATO-sponsored exercise, then disappeared. One
> minute they're marching 
> around Camp Lejeune with soldiers from 13 other
> countries, and the next 
> minute they're scarcer than a radical feminist at a
> Southern Baptist 
> conference on domestic relations. 
>      By the time Marine Corps officials finished
> counting heads, 14 of the 40 
> Albanians who had participated in the training
> exercise were gone. 
>      This should make you feel proud and lucky. 
>      The Albanians ran away, of course, because they
> didn't want to go home. 
> Albania is a chronically poor country with a long
> history of religious 
> oppression, political turmoil and economic chaos. It
> once was so hard-line 
> communist that it broke off relations with China in
> the late 1970s because 
> that country had lost its ideological edge and begun
> consorting with 
> capitalists. Even after abandoning communism and
> embracing capitalism 
> themselves, the Albanians made a hash of it. They
> put their money into 
> patently fraudulent, get-rich-quick investment
> pyramids, then started a civil 
> war when they discovered their money was gone. 
>      In short, Albania is a good place to get away
> from. And the United 
> States is a good place to get away to. 
>      We forget this sometimes. Americans complain
> ceaselessly about almost 
> everything -- taxes, traffic, cable TV service,
> politicians, telemarketers, 
> the weather, slow drivers, the neighbor's
> leaf-blower, the dog on the Taco 
> Bell commercials, whatever. I even know a guy who
> gripes because the stock 
> market is only generating a 14 percent return on his
> investments these days. 
> (That's me, by the way.) 
>      Well, you know what? All that looks pretty good
> to the average Albanian. 
>      Sadly, 11 of the 14 already have been rounded
> up. Five of them were 
> caught as they walked along the highway; three were
> arrested in a Kinston bus 
> station, and the rest of them were run to earth in
> Philadelphia. That means 
> only three are still at large. 
>      I hope we never see them again. 
>      I hope they burrow in a big city somewhere and
> find jobs, even if it's 
> something we'd consider low-wage drudge work but
> would seem like a gold mine 
> to them. I hope they meet nice American women who
> look like the Spice Girls 
> and teach them some killer dance steps. I hope
> somebody takes them to a 
> big-league baseball game so the other spectators can
> be treated to the 
> sublime joy of hearing umpires heckled in a thick
> Albanian accent. I hope 
> they live long, fruitful, happy, American-style
> lives. 
>      I hope all this happens because they've earned
> it. By walking off into 
> the night of a strange country with little more than
> hope, they reminded us 
> of something: Much of the rest of the world
> desperately wants what we've got. 
>      After all, I don't know anybody trying to
> disappear into the Albanian 
> countryside. 
>      
> 
> G.D. Gearino can be reached at dang at nando.com or
> 829-4802
> 
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