In <[email protected]>, on 04/05/2014
at 11:41 AM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> said:
>I remember my sister saying her European friends couldn't
>understand wheat (sic) the big deal about Watergate was.
The same in Israel.
>The assumed that the snooping involved was common
>practice given their experience with their own governments.
Perhaps, but I suspect that it was really a question of whose ox was
gored. Certainly, people in Israel got very upset over what to me
looked like minor scandals; the were more egregious than Watergate
because they were local.
Were the French as blasé over scandals in France as they were over
Watergate?
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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