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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Feb 3 21:06:48 2005, in response to Re: People abroad not liking us, posted by Broadway Buffer on Thu Feb 3 19:54:58 2005. Sorry, didn't mean it as a personal comment about France - there's a lot of bashing without understanding the broader picture. France's "sphere of influence" has long been the sub-Sahara and parts of the Middle East just as ours is the "Americas" and before we can bash the French for their involvement in the Middle East, it behooves us to look at some of our own destructive behaviors in the Americas. France has its national interests and we have ours and sometimes they conflict.Generally, the French still LIKE us, but are frustrated by some of the thing we do just as we are frustrated by some of the things THEY do. I'm sure they're as confused by our attitudes as we are by theirs. But STILL, we should be able to work them out. But while we're pointing fingers as a nation, we're not quite as squeaky clean as we might like to imagine ourselves. There's a mess out there, largely of our own making. It'd be nice if we could all work together to sort them out. That's the only point I was trying to make. Last thing we all need is to make MORE enemies among the nations of the world. The "yahoo cowboy" mode isn't selling well ... |
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