----- Original Message -----
From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Retaliation
> At 12:22 13-9-01 -0700, John Giorgis wrote:
>
> > >>> I can even imagine that the US will declare war on the country that
> > >>> is behind this. But the way you put it, you do just want the US to
> > >>> take revenge, you want to drag the whole world into war with you.
> > >>
> > >> Indeed we do.
> > >
> > > Great. We will remember that when the terrorists start attacking
> > > European targets because of that. Since the US is dragging us into
> > > this, I suppose that after the war the US will come this way to clean
> > > up the mess?
> >
> >I'm going to avoid more than a casual mention of the fact that the US
> >has gone into Europe on at least six separate occasions now to clean up
> >European messes (WWI, WWII, the Cold War, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo,
> >and Macedonia) and ask you a few simple questions.
>
> Exactly what did you clean up here after the Cold War?
>
> As for the war on the Balkan, I am going to avoid more than a casual
> mention of the fact that the US at first did not even want to get involved
> because it considered the war on the Balkan "a European problem".
>
I remember watching European leaders on TV publicly state that they didn't
need US interference in the Balkins before things got bad. Once they were
in over their heads, they yelled for help. We're terribly sorry that we did
jump the annoosecond Europe said "hop frog."
What do you think the proper roll of the US is? To stand in the corner
until told what to do and then jump in as soon as told? That is the only
possible conclusion I could make from your critcism of the actions and
inactions of the US. If there is another explaination, I would like to see
it?
Dan M.
Dan M.
