posted February 13, 2000 12:40 PM
"The American people may make mistakes. They may commit injustices. But, in the end, they always of their own will put them right. It is in their history."
Lord Bryce, British Ambassador to the U.S. (1907-1913
------------------ "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Woody Allen
posted February 15, 2000 05:42 AM
Something like a 224 year backlog. (Baloo said I instead of we, but I was thinking we) ------------------ Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!! Gandalf
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posted February 15, 2000 04:06 PM
Strangly Omega, I disagree with your rather narrow view.
Certainly there are many things that the United States has yet to "put right." Among these are past incursions into Cenral and South American countries such as Guatemala and Chile. Does the name Salvador Allende ring a bell?
United States support for dictators still has the southern half of the western hemisphere in turmoil.
And I don't think we need to get going on the whole blood for oil issue do we?
------------------ Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"! ~C. Montgomery Burns
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posted February 15, 2000 07:53 PM
While I'm all for tearing each other's virtual throats out in a lovely display of online vengence, I'm not sure I see anything too deserving of it here.
------------------ "You are stupid and evil and do not know you are stupid and evil." -- Gene Ray, Cubic
posted February 15, 2000 09:52 PM
Come now Sol, I haven't seen a good argument for quite some time.
But you are quite right. Post editied.
------------------ Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"! ~C. Montgomery Burns
[This message has been edited by Jay (edited February 16, 2000).]
What, you other countries don't use oil? News to me. For every Dresden, a Coventry. For each Nagisaki, an Auschwitz.
Who supports monarchies?
And although we greatly screwed over the original inhabitants of our own country, we weren't the ones who nearly drove the Australian Aboriginals to extinction, as well.
And if you really want to talk about large scale stains on the record, and open up old wounds, I don't recall any US'ers participating in the Crusades and the Inquisition.
Let the argument die, for we all live in glass houses.
------------------ "Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi
posted February 16, 2000 07:27 AM
Not me. I just draw the curtains (they're BIG curtains).
------------------ "The mark of a truly great mind isn't whether you're right or wrong. It's how well you can weasel out of a jam." --Cecil Adams Come Hither and Yawn...
posted February 16, 2000 09:52 AM
Like I said with my examples, First of Two, every country has their major blemishes.
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