Re: Ooops...
| From: | Andrew D Chaney <adchaney@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 24, 2001, 0:57 |
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On Friday, March 23, 2001, at 02:57 PM, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, David Peterson wrote:
>
> > I have a lot of knowledge outside U.S. borders. But, that's me; I'm not average. And it's
> not a compliment (saying that other countries are just as bad), it's a defense, so that
> people don't paint up America as the Great Satan, thus putting themselves up as superior.
[snip]
>
> (Okay, no amount of rhetoric is *ever* going to make Dubya look
> smart--the Cornell Daily Sun devotes plenty of pages pointing this
> out--but he's not Vlad the Impaler. Or Stalin. Or Tamurlane. Or
> Richard Nixon. Or Nero. Or...or....)
>
> YHL
Please, please, please don't let us get into a discussion of US politricks.
It breeds hostility. And would be (I suspect) quite boring to the international
population of this list.
Andy
adchaney@louisiana.edu
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~adc7593/