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From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Criticism of Dutch Government
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 14:45:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 14:45:37 1984
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> Enough of this Dutch-trashing.  Remember that during the Nazi
> occupation many Dutch risked their lives to help Jews escape or
> hide.  During the '73 oil embargo, the Dutch, with no oil resources
> of their own, put up with a total cut-off of crude rather than
> renounce their close ties with Israel.  (In the US, with substantial
> oil reserves, there was all of a sudden a lot of "We want oil--not
> Jews" graffiti.)  Are these signs of moral weakness?  How dare you
> folks condemn the moral fiber of the Dutch!

Nobody is condemning anyone. The origonal criticism of Dutch prostitution
and drug use was only made to show how inappropriate the anti-American
attitude of one Dutch poster was. If other people think that there are
important issues of Dutch society to discuss, I hope that they will create
net.dutch and try to discuss them in a rational manner. I have a lot
of admiration for the Netherlands myself, and only regret that some
people on both sides of the Atlantic can get so caught up in nationalistic
self-righteousness that they lose sight of all the good things we could
be discussing about both the US and the Netherlands...

	Wayne