From: Brett Paatsch (paatschb@ocean.com.au)
Date: Sun Nov 24 2002 - 21:00:00 MST
Ron h wrote:
> asa@nada.kth.se writes: yes, the US is capitalist and
> uncultured, but it is not the taliban.
>
> You know I think that one statement sort of sums up the rest of
your
> email.
I read both Robert Bradbury's question and Anders
response to it (from Australia .ie. neither Europe nor the
US) and I didn't get that impression at all.
I thought Anders was giving his perception of *some* European
views and not necessarily his own when he wrote:
>> There were the normal amount of antiamericanism
>> around before 911, and for a while it hung in the balance:
>> the attacks were so extreme, so unprecedented that even
>> many people who reflexively claim they hate the US kept
>> silent or even seemed to reconsider: yes, the US is capitalist
>> and uncultured, but it is not the taliban. Many otherwise
>> neutral people becaume quite sympathetic to the US.
Brett
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