> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: Sunday, January 13, 2002 23:06 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: RE: Treatment Of Prisoners (was RE: Tragedy in Israel)
> >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. > > Me: > Apparently your convenient claims to selective English deficiency are > more plausible than I thought, Jeroen, I read my original post again, but I can not seem to find the sentence in it where I claim "English deficiency". <sarcasm> But then, I am merely European, and we all know that Europeans are (intellectually and otherwise) far inferior to US Americans... </sarcasm> > since apparently you have difficulties with very simple English > sentences. And then Gautum claims that *I* made a personal attack... :-( But I will ask - do you really think that a personal attack that suggests that I have difficulties with very simple English sentences is really all that likely to be taken seriously by anyone who has read my posts to the list of the last few years? > 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. Since both quotes are in English, that dictionary would be an English dictionary, not a Dutch-English dictionary. But anyway, I do consider "lots of people in Europe and the rest of the world" to be pretty much synonymous with "much of rest of the world". > 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 of the last few years? Your posts generally show quite some understanding of international affairs. that is exactly why I found your statement so upsetting -- I would have expected better than that from you. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
