Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 7/26/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!drutx!dlo From: dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing Message-ID: <3190@drutx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 12:52:21 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.3190 Posted: Mon Jul 8 12:52:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 06:31:35 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 43 >From: lkk@teddy.UUCP >In article <3140@drutx.UUCP> dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL) writes: >>That is just garbage. But even if it were true, the attack was on the >>typical Joe and Jane Lunchpail who have nothing to do with any real or >>perceived grievances in the third world; people who spend their lives doing >>things like going to work and coming home to kids and utility bills; people >>just like the rest of us Americans. >Hmm. A little slip there I see. Are you saying that the average >American has no knowledge or influence on American foreign policy? >And this is a democracy? One could say that since Americans elect represenatatives who in turn establish policy, they are responsible for the results of that policy. I am not trying to justify dirty deals, but I find it hard to believe that all (or even most) of the world's problems are due to US policy. It is too easy; it answers too many questions. Problems have existed for human beings everywhere since the beginning of time. Some have been caused by Americans; many have not. To indict *all* Americans as being the villains is not justified. It is possible to establish a link between anybody with anybody else on this planet. It just depends on how thin to make the connection. But, the belief that one can use this to fix blame for whatever problem to the typical, average American is a little too gratuitous. >-- >Sport Death, >Larry Kolodney >(USENET) ...decvax!genrad!teddy!lkk >(INTERNET) lkk@mit-mc These opinions belong to anybody who wants to claim them. David Olson ..!ihnp4!drutx!dlo "To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools". -- Jean de la Bruyere