At 02:20 PM 6/1/01 +0200 Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>Running across repetitions of statements by Americans like 'we founded the
>united nations'
Do you care to argue that we didn't? Or do you think the fact that the
UN Treaty was signed in San Francisco and that the UN is based in NY are
both just coincidences?
> As for national pride.... I really
>could care less. It's just that the eternal repetition of how good and
>wonderfull the US is, regardless of all it's rather numerous bad things is
>getting somewhat tiresome and even at points rediculous.
But what I can't get over is why you and so many others insist on weighting
all of the bad things that the US has done *equally* with all of the good
things that the US has done? Why can't you admit that the US has been a
net force of good in the world? Indeed, why can't you pay attention long
enough to actually notice when I acknowledge all of our bad things, and
moreover, why do you insist upon caricaturizing my position as declaring
the US to be all good and wonderful, instead of simply a net force for the
good and wonderful?
So again, I ask - because the question is very important - Do you consider
the US to be a net force of good in the world?
JDG
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"Compassionate conservatism is the way to reconcile the two most vital
conservative intellectual traditions: libertarianism and Catholic social
thought."
-Michael Gerson, advisor to George W. Bush
