The Logic Off Topic list

GAmoore@... wrote:

>After reading spectro@... (Spectro)'s mail, it made me really
>depressed. I freely admit that the US blunders at time - Vietnam was
>questionable, and supporting Israel and not clamping down on their antics
>gets us in a lot of trouble. George Bush is the worst possible advocate
>for America to the outside world.
But frankly I consider every Spectro's anti-American points to be stupid
>at worst, and distorted reality at best.

Firstly, please understand I was positing numerous examples in response
to a paragraph of  Dennis' that attempted to  suggest reasons why the US is
viewed  resentfully and how this could lead to its perception in some quarters
as being the 'Great Satan'.  Others suggest other reasons above and beyond
my own. Fine, they just all add fuel to the 'fire'. The  examples I  cited
while somewhat overstated perhaps (but all basically true) are not
my only points of view  regarding the US. Neither am I attempting in any
way to provide any justification to  the recent atrocities  either. I
personally
don't believe  there can be any.

>It made me realize, that much of
>the world is screwed up, like Hendrik for example. How can we hope to
>come to an understanding with such negative, stupid, and ignorant
>attitudes. There is something going on here. Its not factual or logicial.

I do not believe my attitudes to be stupid, twisted, nor ignorant. Far from it.
I also believe from what I  have read of his posts that Hendrik is far from
screwed up. It is after all about perspective. From a distance things look
much  different than they do up close. So please take my statements within
the context  for which they were intended.

S.