"John D. Giorgis" schreef:
> Hi Sonja,
>
> I hope you are back from the hospital and doing well.....
>
> Picking up where we left off.....
>
> At 01:11 AM 6/3/01 +0200 Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> >"John D. Giorgis" schreef:
> >
> >> At 04:21 PM 6/2/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> >> >So, who is to decide?
> >>
> >> You are. I was asking you (well, Sonja in this case - but same thing,
> >> right? >:-)>) for your assessment of the situation. I'm not asking if you
> >> think that the US was a net force of good by 42 points or anything, I am
> >> just asking if you think that the US was a net force of good, period.
> >> Well, it would be nice if you could say "barely a net source of good" vs.
> >> "far and away a net source of good."
> >
> >Neither. The US has (just as many other countries) a lot of good sides but I
> >figure there are also enough bad sides to compensate for that. So I'm neither
> >very impressed nor do I disapprove of the US as such or because it's the
> US. If
> >you ask me, it's just another country with citizens, points of views,
> politics,
> >sciences, successes, failures and more.
>
> So, in your viewpoint there are no good countries and no bad countries?
> Are all countries inherently equal in your viewpoint? Are countries
> capable of contributing net good or net evil to the world over a given
> timeframe?
Eventually, yes. There are countries I'm not so fond of at the moment (like
Afghanistan f.i.). But if you look at politics, ethics and such in general,
changes can occur practicly overnight. So why use old stigma's when situations
have changed so much?
Sonja
