> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda
... > 1. Your claims to know French history would be more > convincing if you displayed _knowledge of_ French > history and > 2. Apparently not. I guess it was too much to ask. I > had dinner with George Rutler Proclaiming that I don't know what I'm talking about and dropping names... means what? Not an honored debate approach, IIRC. My preference is that you just say what I wrote here that was incorrect, and explain why. All you've said so far is that there was anti-Semitism in France, which no one disputes. But I strongly dispute your characterization of it as more than a minority who took advantage of the destruction of the French army by the Nazis. Do you have any actual facts about that, or are generalizations, name-calling and name-dropping the best you are going to offer? You brought this up as a reason that France should not oppose our country's war initiative, giving it currency, else at this point, I'd almost surely drop the whole subject. I would hope that as a graduate of Harvard, orbiting among many scholars, special forces troops and whoever else's light you are radiating, you are not just bashing the French because it is fashionable, but is based in facts. So, will you offer facts and not generalizations? In the meantime... Vous parlez l'histoire Francais comme une vache de droite. Et si vous comprenez (sans assistance), peut-etre vous connaissez plue que je pense. (Which probably has some errors, but I don't get to practice much these days, despite almost a decade of studying French and France.) Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
