From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 10:58:17 MDT
In a message dated 9/19/2002 10:59:51 AM Central Standard Time,
CurtAdams@aol.com writes: My complaint was about how discussions between
people on this list on political (and sometimes other) matters seems so
readily to turn into "US: right or wrong?"
Curt,
Perhaps you need to spend more time establishing the context of what
you are saying. If you read this list there is a context of "was the U. S.
right or wrong." There is also a large input from people who to use Reagan's
phrase "Blame America first."
Unless you carefully and at some length distinguish yourself from
those two groups you will almost automatically be misunderstood.
We are in a difficult time and a lot of people unfortunately are in a
"take no prisoners" frame of mind. But their attitude is both easy
understand and to accept. We, the U. S., have been the receipents of a
declaration of war and had several thousand of our citizens killed in that
war.
Ron h.
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