Fair cop
& also agree with Alison - maybe you should say some writers rather than
some American (sic) writers
It's not that USAmerican writers who are wrong in this matter are USAmerican
but that they are wrong
It's against some USAmerican govt policies and its disagreement with those
who support them, nothing more, well not for me - I spend a lot of my time
talking with and reading USAmericans - and not I think for any of those here
who have been condemning the attack upon Afghanistan per se...
Having been accused of sentimentality when I objected to the belittling of
the importance of Afghan deaths, recently I suggested that a specifically US
problem is sometimes sentimentality - Listening to an item about the first
tourists back to the statue of liberty, I heard a NYC official say _It
brings tears to my eyes when I look at it_ Now that, quoting P J O'Rourke,
is really alien to me
It's good if we are getting more realistic figures, but the lies have served
their purpose successfully... I remember the more realistic figures about
Kosovo coming out - everyone on the Clapham omnibus shrugged at best... no
facts were going to change their prejudiced perceptions. They knew the
truths they had to hold as self-evident and they didn't want trouble
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 20 December 2001 23:16
Subject: Re: Hypocrisies
| exactly the kind of thing that people like myself (and I suspect Lawrence)
| are so concerned about, and the bludgeoning into silence of which by some
| American writers provokes such a reaction.
|