Geçen gün bir arkadaşla eskilerden birkaç bölümünü seyrediyorduk. Güldük ettik, laf lafı açtı. Laik Türkiye’de, Müslümanlara kur yapan ve ABD’nin İslam ile “savaşta olmadığını” ilan eden Obama’nın ziyareti, gündemi ziyadesiyle işgal ettiğinden olsa gerek; aklımıza Benjamin Franklin ve Thomas Jefferson vs arası bir muhabbetin geçtiği bir bölüm geldi. Yemedim, içmedim, bir kısmını aradım buldum. Tercüme etmeyi aklıma bile getirmedim tabii 🙂
“Benjamin Franklin: I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungary and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight, to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both.
Thomas Jefferson: Yes, yes of course, we go to war and protest going to war at the same time…
Benjamin Franklin: And that means that as a nation, we could go to war with whomever we wished, but at the same time act like we didn’t want to. If we allow the people to protest what the government does, then the country will be forever blameless.
John Adams: It’s like having your cake and eating it too.
Anonymous Hick Redneck Founding Father: Think of it: An entire nation founded on saying one thing and doing another.
John Hancock: And we will call that country the United States of America.”
İmza D.