At 08:09 5-2-2003 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
I think the world would be a better place if the dog would be taken to the vet to have it "helped".Efforts and feelings do not equal results. But hey, it feels good to act morally superior and keep the mean dog locked up out of sight until it is needed. When it is needed the mean dog must quickly do as it is told and then get back in the doghouse. Good dog!
It's not absurd at all. We are in fact doing exactly what the US is doing: we're looking after our own interests. It just so happens that, unlike the US, our interests do not include a desire to rule the world.> The EU countries have a force that to them is usefull in the > international arena. Not to the US, but to themselves and their > interests. Maybe we should argue semantics before drawing conclusions.I understood perfectly well what you meant. It is just absurd, as my snippage showed.
You have, however, mastered the US technique of insulting and Euro-bashing.Oh, sorry, it seems I haven't mastered the EU technique of insulting and retreating.
Jeroen "History will prove me right" van Baardwijk
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