Re: CHAT: America's unfolding history
| From: | O'Connell James <jamestomas2@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 14, 2001, 18:25 |
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Ok,
first and foremost I aplogise for bringing this up - I
guess that this was probably neither the time or the
place to bring this up, however I have to say I feel
strongly on this matter and now realise I should have
perhaps left these comments to private discussion.
There are also a fair few points that I realise now
were rather easy to misinterpret, so I will set some
of these straight.
Firstly I never said that I support the terrorist
attacks - obviously I do not - I observed a silence
for those who died, just like everyone else - although
bare in mind that I, unlike most people also held an
extra minute's silence for all those who have died in
the tragic history of confrontational politics in the
Middle-East.
Secondly, if I seem to accuse America of anything, I
do not. My own country of Britain is guilty of all the
same things that America is and, in some cases, more.
To be frank, most of my anger comes from my total
disillusion with western civilisation as a whole,
which to me seems to have, if anything, regressed
somewhat from 2000 years ago.
One thing though that I do feel very strongly about is
that some people seem to think that America AND
Britain AND all western countries are perfect, and
superior than other LEDCs.
Also much of my anger grows from my fear that America
will retalliate too quickly. I am glad to say that it
seems that the US has considered things quite calmly,
so perhaps I misjudged President Bush - I guessed that
America would have already launched military strikes.
I hope that those on the list will understand my
motives for making the comments I did, and understand
that I certainly meant no disrespect.
I simply don't want to see any one killed as I have
already seen so many needless deaths in so many
conflicts of history that I have studied.
Once again, sorry
James
--- Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...> wrote: > on
12/09/01 14:30, O'Connell James
> (jamestomas2@YAHOO.CO.UK) wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately I fear that America, led by maybe
> the
> > person most feared in England, President Bush,
> will
>
> I agree that such a campaign woul be horribly
> unjustified.
> But what I don't understand is why everyone seems to
> think Bush
> is such a trigger-happy fool. He may not be the best
> at public
> speaking, but he's not an idiot...
>
> andy.
>
> adchaney@louisiana.edu
>
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