At 12:40 13-1-02 -0500, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>It's clear to any person with eyes >to see it that there are lots of people in Europe and the rest of the world >who have no interest whatsoever in the justice or injustice of anything the >US or Israel does - they seek only to criticize to satisfy some internal >compulsions that we cannot, and should not, take seriously or allow to >constrain our actions. Jeroen: Do you realise how insulting that statement is? You imply that much of the rest of the world criticises the US and Israel only for the sake of criticising. Despite your beliefs, however, we do have an interest in what said countries do. The difference is that we are often observers rather than participants, and therefore see things from a different angle than you do. If you still want to pursue that career in international politics, I suggest you get rid of those ridiculous ideas and fill the resulting gap with factual data instead of silly assumptions. Jeroen Me: Apparently your convenient claims to selective English deficiency are more plausible than I thought, Jeroen, since apparently you have difficulties with very simple English sentences. Unless there a special Dutch-English dictionary that declares that "lots of people" (my quote) = "much of the rest of the world" (your quote). I don't think there is. But maybe that's the same one that has a debatable foreign policy decision (not signing the Land Mine Treaty) = "crime against humanity" (your description of it). I'm not even going to bother to respond to the rest of what you said. But I will ask - do you really think that a personal attack that suggests that I lack "factual data" about international affairs is really all that likely to be taken seriously by anyone who has read my posts to the list over the last few years? Gautam
