Hi Ken >Keith writes: > > > > >This is exactly why the US, the UK and the other Allies > >formed the UN after WW2. It is a problem for the whole > >world, not just Washington, and when the whole world > >disagrees with Washington's proposed "solution", > >Washington should listen, rather than trying to railroad > >the UN and the world. > >This gives me an idea -- I've been wondering how to refer to >"my country" in conversations these days. The problem is >that "America is obsessed", "America wants war," etc etc. >doesn't speak for ME or many of the Americans I know.
That's definitely a problem - I think many of us non-Americans here are feeling that. It certainly goes for most of the Americans I know. And I post all this stuff that the war-party lot then dubs "anti-US" or "America-bashing", but nearly all of it's written by Americans! >I think I'll start referring to the insane masterminds of >this immoral foreign policy, as well as the ones who just >sit idly while it happens, as "Washington". That doesn't >cover all of 'em, but it covers a good percentage. Somewhere >along the way, "Washington" got the idea that it was synony- >mous with "America". It's not, and we need a simple way to >clarify that in discussions. Excellent! >Thanks for the tip, Keith :-) -K Thanks for applying it properly. :-) Keith Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
