At 11:05 AM 9/27/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>> > 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.
Well, it obviously couldn't be the fact that it only took you a short time
to revert to your on-list policy of 100% criticism of America, could it?
Nahhhh...... It couldn't be the utter absence of concession statements
in every one of your arguments, you know anything that suggests that you
even can see American points of view, even if you disagree with them, could
it? Nahhhhh...... On the other hand, maybe its the fact that you have
repeatedly insisted that Americans should be seeing the possibility of
immorality in an essential American process - earning profit - despite the
fact that Americans have never found immorality in earning profit following
other tragedies, could it? Nahhhh..........
Gee wiz, Jeroen, I just can't figure out where these doubts could
*possibly* be coming from!
>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.
Now this, Jeroen, I actually understand. After all, how many posts did I
have to spend repeating the central point of my original "Profit" post -
i.e. that American construction firms have always earned profits after
natural disasters, and it would be unthinkable to Americans to deny them
profit after this tragedy.
>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?
Where have I heard that "some of my best friends are Negroes" phrase,
before?
Sorry, Jeroen, but its not about the friends you keep or how much you enjoy
this great land's natural and historic beauty.
Its about having a virulent knee-jerk reaction to almost everything America
does and stands for.
JDG
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"Freedom itself was attacked today, and Freedom will be Defended."
-U.S. President George W. Bush, 09/11/01
