RE: Profit RE: World Attitude (was: Re: Down Under Attitude)

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

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> Van: dendriite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:03 AM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: Profit RE: World Attitude (was: Re: Down Under 
> Attitude)

> > You know, having to explain myself over and over again because people
> > are not capable of understanding what I say, and having to correct
> > such people over and over again is, to say the least, getting very
> > tiresome. It is however one hell of a way to kill a discussion...  :(
> 
> The death of thousands of Americans in NYC and DC is one of the saddest
> things to happen during my lifetime. Jeroen, I seriously doubt you
> appreciate how much *I* grieve for them and their families, and I am
> only one out of three hundred million Americans and uncountable
> millions elsewhere who are feeling much the same way I do.

Your doubts are completely unnecessary. I do not understand why you would
have those doubts in the first place. I do not believe that an all-out war
against Afghanistan is the right approach, but that does not mean I do not
grieve for the WTC/Pentagon victims.

I fail to see, BTW, what your grieve for the victims has to do with some
people not being able to correctly interpret my writings.


> We want our buildings back.
> New Yorkers want their skyline back.
> Business needs the office space.
> Growth demands they be replaced.

Not to mention the fact that a piece of land in New York is probably so
horribly expensive that it would almost be criminal not to build something
on it.


> One might suspect that you would prefer some dead monument so that you
> might point at it and say "Look, there is where America was kicked in
> the teeth", or "There lies the fruit of Americas villanny".

I thoroughly resent that scathing remark. It suggests that because I
criticise the US, I also must feel an intense hatred of the US. Exactly
where, when and why did you get the idea that I would prefer some dead
monument and say the things that you think I would say?


> I honestly wonder at the depth of your hatred of America.

I do not hate America. If I did, why would I have spent so much time trying
to get our 5th Anniversary Party organised, a party that was to take place
in the United States? And why would I have planned a three-weeks vacation in
the US and Canada around the time the Party was to take place, if I feel
such an intense hatred of the US?


Jeroen

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