> 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
Good point, Lawrence. And the (sic) . I can certainly go along with that
(and agree with Alison myself)
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: Hypocrisies
> 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]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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.
>
|