[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
> I mean, if some anti-Netherlands group bombed Amsterdam, would the Dutch take
> kindly to outsiders lecturing them on their failings in the immediate
> aftermath?
On a lighter note:
The Dutch would probably immediatly form a committee that spents a year or more
trying to find out how and why disaster struck and who can be held responsible.
Then they'd publish a very long and tedious report. After the innevitable
critisism by f.i. professors and professionals in the field of interest, there
would be immediatly another bigger committee to investigate what is wrong with
the published report and the way the investigation was done by the first
committee. That takes another couple of years. By the time they finally uncover
the whole truth, another committee is formed to find out if and how
recommendation to prevent similar future disasters are achievable and not too
expensive in relation to the intended gain. After that nobody is really
interested anymore. ;o)
Sonja
PS: I don't mean to be insensitive. It just seems to be the way the Dutch deal
with disasters. :o) We did have plenty of major disasters disrupting our little
country during the last few years. A Belgian Hercules helicopter transporting a
Dutch military music band crashed and burned on our local airfield here in
Eindhoven, IIRC only three survived (severly burned) because of sloppy
communication and coordination in the rescue work; an Israeli transport plane
that flew into a highrise building complex in the Beilmer near Amsterdam; a large
part of one of our bigger towns turned to ashes when a fireworks factory exploded
in the hart of Enschede; and the newyear's fire in a (due to the occasion) very
crowded establishment in Volendam where a lot of (very) young people in a very
close community died or were severely burned. And as shocking as all of it was,
it still is nothing compared to what happened in the US. So believe me when I say
that no disrespect was intended.
