Okay... If Outlook Express crashes before I finish writing this message, I
will give up and not bother replying.
> > One might argue that the Vietnamese were not using herbicides so
> > extensively
> > at the time, and certainly never asked to have it forced upon them in
such
> > quantities.
>
> Which Vietnamese would that be?
Were there any Vietnamese who were willing and capable of seeking out such
advanced agricultural technology?
> What you will learn is that federal chriminal law is a very fragile
creature.
> The only reason that our system works is becouse we have seperate bodies
of
> governemnt. Legislative making the laws, Executive inforcing the laws, and
> Judicial judging the law in practice. Each of these branches is equaly as
> powerful. Without such a system federalization of criminal (or other) law
> would have too many issues to be maintainable. There is a three sided
system
> of checks and balances. Sure this makes things move slowly. We may know
that
> one thing or another is broken, but we also know that slaping on a
solution
> is going to break something else. It is a natural system (if your a
> proggrammer, spegetti code) and it has to be that way. Why? becouse if it
> were any other way it would resemble the facism or communism or
> totalitarianism that failed in the last century.
Can it not be said that a lot of this is ultimately under the control of the
rich?
> Another thing is that our government today is not the same government we
had
> 20 years ago. It changes. This is sometimes hard for others to understand.
> You may blame the US governement for some small decision made 30 or 40
years
> ago, and we will recognize it. It is nothing new. We are constantly
metating
> our governemnt to make it better, it does not supprise us that the
> governement of the past did something we find distastefull today. But it
> doesn't bother us either if we have already fixed it. At the same time we
> know that the gerneral structure is sound becouse things do continue to
get
> better.
<snip>
> And yes we think our way is better. And we also think that it is obvious.
We
> are arogant becouse of what we have done. We are the outsiders, the lost,
the
> shuned, the exiled, the escaped, the opressed, the tierd and hungry and we
> have risen to the top.
These two paragraphs seem to be contradictory.
> Our ancestors were correct when they told your
> ancestors that their way was better, and now we have prooven that it is in
> fact better. Your ancestors shuned ours and now look what we have
> acomplished. I'm sure that does piss you off, but you know if you were
smart
> it wouldn't. If you were smart you would recognize it for what it is.
France
> did for a while. We don't expect every other country to be a carbon copy
of
> the US, that would be a shame and it would be boring. But we do expect
others
> to recognize when we have made some better decisions, some need to grow up
> and stop acting like children.
>
> In my tribe there is a folkeway that allows for a child to take a new name
> when they become an adult. After that, expression they are treated as an
> adult. Before that expression they are treated as children. I think the US
is
> waiting for some countries to step up and be adults.
>
> This is probably cuase for much anti-americanism. But you know what, we as
a
> people are use to it. That's why our ancestors left your countries in the
> first place.
Well, if you're used to it, why are you complaining? If this is a
representative attitude of the American people, why are you surprised that
people in these countries that are "acting like children" are resentful
towards tourists?
Maybe the American way is best (I have no idea). Other countries also have
their own ways and probably have many people who feel just as strongly that
their way is best and probably resent it when someone comes along and tells
them that they're all wrong.
-J
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