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Hengist Pod,
I wish we all could be as smart, sophisticated, knowledgable, and worldly as you. I wish President Bush had you on his staff, then this whole situation would be solved. Please don't preach about how much better you would handle this situation, If my history is correct, You have had a few centuries to develope this enlightened and superior awareness of diplomacy. I also remember reading about the two WORLD WARS!! the affects of colonialism,(Isn't Israel, and Palastine part of this diplomacy) as well as the Holocaust, and others too many to count. So please don't dare preach about the superiority of one's foreign policies. You have the advantage of sitting back and thinking about all your options, because in reality you lack the means to impliment or EXECUTE them anyway. Bush may seem like an uneducated cowboy to your upper class sensibilities, however, he has surrounded himself with an excellent staff who are advising him. You remind me of alot of many Liberals here in the States who ridiculed Reagan so often as a bumbling idiot who was driving the world toward WWIII, well in hindsight he was proven right. Hell, even Gorbacev admitted so. I guess if you had your way we should send a delegation over to meet with the Talibon,and OBL and try to understand them, ask them "what can we do" to help them, or better yet lets give them a few billion and hope they play nice for a few years, kind of what Neville did with Adolph. Well like Adolph, I don't think these people care about the US, or want to be our friend. Thats OK, Anyway I think Bush will surprise you, so far he has acted with wisdom, restraint, and like someone else said, he is talking softly, while assembling a very large stick indeed. I think it scares you a little, but then again you seem to be the type who sits on the sidelines while others do the dirty work. I hope the air is clean and fresh at the lofty heights where you preside, as you look down at all us worker ants below.
I wish we all could be as smart, sophisticated, knowledgable, and worldly as you. I wish President Bush had you on his staff, then this whole situation would be solved. Please don't preach about how much better you would handle this situation, If my history is correct, You have had a few centuries to develope this enlightened and superior awareness of diplomacy. I also remember reading about the two WORLD WARS!! the affects of colonialism,(Isn't Israel, and Palastine part of this diplomacy) as well as the Holocaust, and others too many to count. So please don't dare preach about the superiority of one's foreign policies. You have the advantage of sitting back and thinking about all your options, because in reality you lack the means to impliment or EXECUTE them anyway. Bush may seem like an uneducated cowboy to your upper class sensibilities, however, he has surrounded himself with an excellent staff who are advising him. You remind me of alot of many Liberals here in the States who ridiculed Reagan so often as a bumbling idiot who was driving the world toward WWIII, well in hindsight he was proven right. Hell, even Gorbacev admitted so. I guess if you had your way we should send a delegation over to meet with the Talibon,and OBL and try to understand them, ask them "what can we do" to help them, or better yet lets give them a few billion and hope they play nice for a few years, kind of what Neville did with Adolph. Well like Adolph, I don't think these people care about the US, or want to be our friend. Thats OK, Anyway I think Bush will surprise you, so far he has acted with wisdom, restraint, and like someone else said, he is talking softly, while assembling a very large stick indeed. I think it scares you a little, but then again you seem to be the type who sits on the sidelines while others do the dirty work. I hope the air is clean and fresh at the lofty heights where you preside, as you look down at all us worker ants below.
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From "Why do they hate America" Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times
Read the whole article at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk
But there is something more terrible, more gravely unjust here than 1960s student stupidity, more even than the dancing of the Palestinians and the Lebanese.
Let us ponder exactly what the Americans did in that most awful of all centuries, the 20th. They saved Europe from barbarism in two world wars. After the second world war they rebuilt the continent from the ashes. They confronted and peacefully defeated Soviet communism, the most murderous system ever devised by man, and thereby enforced the slow dismantling - we hope - of Chinese communism, the second most murderous. America, primarily, ejected Iraq from Kuwait and helped us to eject Argentina from the Falklands. America stopped the slaughter in the Balkans while the Europeans dithered.
Now let us ponder exactly what the Americans are. America is free, very democratic and hugely successful. Americans speak our language and a dozen or so Americans write it much, much better than any of us. Americans make extremely good films and the cultivation and style of their best television programmes expose the vulgarity of the best of ours. Almost all the best universities in the world are American and, as a result, American intellectual life is the most vibrant and cultivated in the world.
"People should think," David Halberstam, the writer, says from the blasted city of New York, "what the world would be like without the backdrop of American leadership with all its flaws over the past 60 years." Probably, I think, a bit like hell.
There is a lot wrong with America and terrible things have been done in her name. But when the chips are down all the most important things are right. On September 11 the chips went down.
The Yankophobes were too villanously stupid to get the message. Barely 48 hours after thousands of Americans are murdered, we see the BBC's Question Time with its hand-picked morons in the audience telling Philip Lader, the former US ambassador, that "the world despises America". The studio seethes with ignorance and loathing. Lader looks broken.
Or we have the metropolitan elite on Newsnight Review sneering at Dubya Bush. "So out of touch," Rosie Boycott, the journalist, hisses, "there was no sense of his feeling for people." Alkarim Jivani, the writer, wades in by trashing Bush's response when asked how he was feeling: "Well, I'm a loving guy; also I've got a job to do." Jivani thinks this isn't good enough, no emotion.
Hang on; I thought the bien- pensant left wanted restraint from Bush. And that "loving guy" quote was the most beautiful thing said since September 11. Poetically compressed, rooted in his native dialect, it evoked duty and stoicism. But these are not big values in Islington.
Read the whole article at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk
But there is something more terrible, more gravely unjust here than 1960s student stupidity, more even than the dancing of the Palestinians and the Lebanese.
Let us ponder exactly what the Americans did in that most awful of all centuries, the 20th. They saved Europe from barbarism in two world wars. After the second world war they rebuilt the continent from the ashes. They confronted and peacefully defeated Soviet communism, the most murderous system ever devised by man, and thereby enforced the slow dismantling - we hope - of Chinese communism, the second most murderous. America, primarily, ejected Iraq from Kuwait and helped us to eject Argentina from the Falklands. America stopped the slaughter in the Balkans while the Europeans dithered.
Now let us ponder exactly what the Americans are. America is free, very democratic and hugely successful. Americans speak our language and a dozen or so Americans write it much, much better than any of us. Americans make extremely good films and the cultivation and style of their best television programmes expose the vulgarity of the best of ours. Almost all the best universities in the world are American and, as a result, American intellectual life is the most vibrant and cultivated in the world.
"People should think," David Halberstam, the writer, says from the blasted city of New York, "what the world would be like without the backdrop of American leadership with all its flaws over the past 60 years." Probably, I think, a bit like hell.
There is a lot wrong with America and terrible things have been done in her name. But when the chips are down all the most important things are right. On September 11 the chips went down.
The Yankophobes were too villanously stupid to get the message. Barely 48 hours after thousands of Americans are murdered, we see the BBC's Question Time with its hand-picked morons in the audience telling Philip Lader, the former US ambassador, that "the world despises America". The studio seethes with ignorance and loathing. Lader looks broken.
Or we have the metropolitan elite on Newsnight Review sneering at Dubya Bush. "So out of touch," Rosie Boycott, the journalist, hisses, "there was no sense of his feeling for people." Alkarim Jivani, the writer, wades in by trashing Bush's response when asked how he was feeling: "Well, I'm a loving guy; also I've got a job to do." Jivani thinks this isn't good enough, no emotion.
Hang on; I thought the bien- pensant left wanted restraint from Bush. And that "loving guy" quote was the most beautiful thing said since September 11. Poetically compressed, rooted in his native dialect, it evoked duty and stoicism. But these are not big values in Islington.
