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Thoughts from the mind of GAmoore@..., 9/24/01:

>Hendrik wrote
>>However, the way the US government goes about with it's
>>chesthair-cowboy language mainly gives the impression that they
>>simply need someone to be guilty.
>
>Its so easy to consider America so war like and primitive.

Why is it that so few are able to distinguish between 1) themselves 
as individuals, 2) their people as a collection of individuals bound 
by a few square miles of land and a handful of cultural treats, and 
3) their country as a political entity?

I never said America is war-like and primitive.  Maybe I _think_ so, 
but I didn't _say_ it.  What I _did_ say was that George W. Bush 
utteres primitive and potentially damaging sentences.  This might say 
something about Bush's brain-state (an individual: item 1).  It might 
even say something about the brain-state of the political entity 
(item 3).  It has, however, very little to do with the US nation 
(item 2).
Taking my remarks to mean that I accuse "you people" (US people) of 
being warlike and primitve has therefore little validity.

>Why is it the US doesn't start wars, it finishes them?

This proposition is still very much open to debate.  See a.o. Adrian 
Gills' post.

Apart from that, the above remark has nothing to do with my remarks 
regarding the language the US government sees fit to use.  For all I 
care the US may have saved the world a zillion times before.  That's 
not what I was arguing about.


cheers,
HJ
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     Hendrik Jan Veenstra
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