> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: maandag 14 januari 2002 23:37 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Rhetoric of debate (was RE: Treatment Of Prisoners)
> Anti-Americanism is acceptable in polite society in Europe (and, before > Jeroen calls me on it, I've been to Europe many times) as anti-Semitism > is not (although it is becoming _more_ acceptable, as various British > newspapers have been chronicling recently). Wrong. I must admit that there is an increase in anti-Semitic incidents, but that does not mean it is becoming more *acceptable*. Governments and other organisations work very hard to fight it. > but I'll stick to my contention that if the United States allows its > actions to be constrained by fear of the criticism of the significant > number of people whose major objection to the US is its _existence_, Most of those people do not object to the *existence* of the US but to its behaviour. It is a relatively small group of people (including but not limited to many moslem fundamentalists) that would like nothing better than to see the US destroyed. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
