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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: America Bashing
Message-ID: <568@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 20:24:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.568
Posted: Wed Aug  7 20:24:20 1985
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Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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In article <46@drutx.UUCP> dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL) writes:
>Was the sailor killed because he killed
>children?  Since he was killed personally, he must have been personally
>responsible for some problem with the hijackers -- right?

"Since John Q. Public was drafted and sent to Vietnam, he must have been
personally responsible." You can do better than that.

Patriotism aside, if somebody criticizes/insults your country, don't
take it PERSONALLY. Take offense, if at all, as a citizen of the
country.

Some self-proclaimed freedom fighter comes up to you (Soviet weapon in
hand) and says,"America sucks! Take this! >BANG<." You should feel
great! When America sent troops -- uh... advisors -- into his country,
you waved your little flag! Good for you! Now you get to DIE for your
cause! A lot of people die in political struggles (called wars), but few
of them ever really get to feel like martyrs.

Now why don't you and Don Black go off and be personally insulted by
world politics together. 

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"I was going to say something really profound, but I forgot what it was."
-Rev. Wang Zeep