On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:55:32 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Len wrote:
On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:22:17 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

It is immoral to sit safe in your house while you urge that the sons and
daughters of other families be sent off to foreign lands to fight and
die in a war based on a president's incompetency, stupidity, and deceit.

Perhaps, due to the way the present America was taken by force from
the original inhabitants, war is in the cultural heritage of the us
somewhat seen as a legitimate and effective means to an end, much more
than in europe.

Puh-lease. European history is chock full of wars, some of them lasting
for incredibly long times.

The average 21 century (western-) european is very much peace minded,
and what I am trying to say is that could partly be a result of the
many wars you mentioned. America never really or literally "lost" a
war. Fighting is considered as something one should do for home and
fireplace... and it's only a few inches to the fully evolved
patriottism I read here and there.

The problem in the United States now is that we have an incompetent
president who is inept in diplomacy and who is being led by the nose by
a group of neocons with an agenda that includes a form of "world
domination."

That's how a lot of, a vast majority of europeans see it too. This
president is no world leader material. No vision of what world-policy
to develop. Just self centered aiming for own (campagne-financers)
interests. I am not even interested in the nuanced differences between
republicans and democrats. All I know I prefer a competent US
president who sometimes lets a secretary give him a blow job over a so
called morally superior, ignorant GI Joe who accidentally helps to put
the world on fire.

Regards, Len.