Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm sure Marc meant to write "I" instead of "us," since by no
means would he pretend to speak for me or any other Americans.
There are both isolationists and interventionists here in the U.S.
and various stripes in between. Policy rocks back and forth
over the decades.
Marc's claim that we are a large country with a big military ("the
big dog") is true. OTOH, what Marc describes below as "slapping
down" nations merely for "arguing with us" is *completely* amoral
and sounds like an excellent start for a war crimes tribunal, IMHO.
What, Marc, should we blow up France next because we argue?
Or should we just "slap down" the little nations?
In neither case is Marc accurately portraying US foreign policy
or speaking for our citizens. He's just expressing a rather flacid
and tired form of US bravado.
Scott
Marc James Small wrote:
>At 08:44 AM 6/11/06 +0530, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
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>>By the way, do Rest of the World
>>biases ever bother you?
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>Jayanand
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>The "rest of the world" (that is, non-US) have a huge number of biases, and
>so be it. If you are asking whether we are concerned over international
>attidues, the answer is a decided "no"; this sort of foolishness led the
>British and French to fail to meet the Fascists and Nazis in the middle
>1930's with a decisive rejection, as "World Pubblic Opinion" told them not
>to do so, and WWII resulted. We are not so stupid. We are the Big Dog in
>the fight, and we know this. We have no desire to argue with anyone who
>extends friendly relations with us but we are willing to slap down those
>nations arguing with us or threatening our allies. We wish peace in the
>world but we will use force to resist force against our own or our allies.
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>We lived through 9-11, and it was a real matter to us. Go figure. It
>rather gathered us into a national concentration to resist terrorism. I
>can arguie over the fine points of this, but I will note my personal
>support on the opposition to such terrorism.
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>And why is this question being raised on the Leica Users' Group?
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>Marc
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>msmall@aya.yale.edu
>Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
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