On 28 Aug 2004, at 04:19 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:

I inferred from your post that we Americans didn't know how it felt to lose a large number of countrymen in an attack by a foreign force.

No, that's not what I meant at all. What I meant was, Brad seemed to be having trouble putting himself in the shoes of an Iraqi olympian who has lost thousands of his countrymen and finds his country occupied by a foreign power.


Post-9/11, that kind of empathy ought to be easier for Americans, not harder.

- Darcy
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