"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> At 20:09 31-10-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
>
> >So, there you have it. That *is* how UNSC reform will end up - only the
> >professionals haven't figured it out yet.
>
> Given the absence of smileys, I take it that the above is to be taken
> seriously.
>
> Well, in that case: sheesh, you really are arrogant!
>
> None of the professionals have "figured it out yet"; the only one who sees
> it is a kid with an unrelated low-ranking and low-pay job in the Civil
> Service, who graduated so recently that the ink on his diploma is still wet.
No, this is a "kid" who just got back from volunteering at a Model UN
conference, who has spent a lot of the past few years thinking about the
UN, and who probably understands about 10 times as much about it as any
of the rest of us here, yourself and myself included. The analysis is
not arrived at in a vacuum, but in the context of discussion with an
awful lot of people who spend a fair amount of time thinking about and
discussing these things.
You're awfully dismissive of something someone's put a lot of time and
energy into. Would you like it if someone dismissed all the work you'd
put into brin-l.com because you're not a professional web designer? I
consider your dismissal above to be of the same caliber.
Julia
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