On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:29:23 -0400, Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Ah. I hadn't thought of it quite that way, and it does present the Iraqi's comments in a much different light. You've given me more to think about, but I shall do it in the privacy of my own home from now on. That way, I won't risk upsetting posters who feel the need to read the body of every email message they receive, no matter what it says in the subject. -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
