On 11/16/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you traveled internationally lately?
Last year. Of course in your comfy > home in Kansas things seem all cozy and safe but your average, say, > European sees America as full of rootin' tootin' gun packing > war-mongering nutjobs led by an idiot who's going authoritarian on > them and they don't care. Yeah, and who's right? The European thousands of miles away getting their impression of America from the BBC....or the American citizen living and breathing it every day? Bush and his former government were seen as far-right, leaning > fascist, rulers using security as an excuse for aggression on both the > citizens and foreigners. You especially can't blame Europeans for > feeling that way. No, i can't blame them...but it doesn't mean they are right. So, yeah, feelings and impressions are always rational but I think > they do say something about how people got those impressions. Yer turning this into another "Bush sucks" thread, as you are want to do. Hey, point conceded....now tell me why the safest course is to just stay out of America all together? You've seen the polls, many people around the World consider America > to be one of the top threats to peace. Laugh if you will, but how do > you think they got that impression? I was laughing at the point that coming to America was somehow dangerous. You've gone completely off topic. -- If there's one thing in my life that's missing, it's the time that I spend alone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:220783 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
