JDG wrote: > >No...... maybe I don't hold "bashing" to be as negative a term as some >people are taking it, but "bashing" *is* what occurs on most dicussion >lists. "Constructive Criticism" is critcism designed to construct >changes. Since that is impossible on a List of this nature (Dubya hasn't >subscribed yet (though he probably should! :)), the comments are clearly >criticism with the intent of taking the moral stature of the United States >down a notch among the Brin-L readers. Thus, the comments are "bashing." > Don't you think some posters make criticism of the USA just to enlighten the USA listmembers that their country is _not_ the Always-Promoter-of-Good Superpower that they believe it is?
Alberto Monteiro
