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>>I do appreciate that Spectro and Hendrik are frank about thier opinions
>>and they have every right to have them. There is no reason why they have
>>to like or agree with the US. What is depressing is that their opiniions
>>overlook so many facts, are based on half truths, or and distorted facts
>
>Oh, be glad.  When the wars are over, your american heroes will at 
>least have one other task left to do: educate the ignorant 
>west-european masses.  Just try to view it as an employment 
>opportunity...

You know, I could be wrong, but I can't recall a single Neatherlander 
hero. It would seem as though there should have been at least one who 
blew up a bridge or sabotaged a train track during the Nazi occupation, 
or maybe a heroic defense of some town, or something ... anything. As I 
remember the French maginot line of defense turned out useless because 
the Germans simply went around through the soft countries viertualy 
without resistance and attacked France from another angle. I guess it was 
easier to appease Hitler than stand up and fight for your freedom. Its 
easier to let English and American and Canadian boys to cross the ocean 
and die for you. Then from about 1950 to 1988 there was a real threat 
that the Soviet Union would roll their massively superior tanks through 
western Europe, but guess who was there as a deterrent? Then you can say 
how 'primitive' and 'war mongering' they are, while sitting there 
relaxing in freedom and prosperity they provided for you. 

And to mock the heroics of the American military while they are in harms 
way, makes me disgusted. I know this is turning ugly, and I have nothing 
more to say. I just expected a tiny bit more courtesy in a time like 
this. Maybe a few weeks of restraint before resuming the anti-American 
comments would have been nice.