On Dec 1, 2004, at 10:38 PM, JDG wrote:
At 08:29 AM 12/1/2004 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:A response to sorryeverybody.com-
www.apologiesaccepted.com
You got me! I was thinking that a "response" would be something to the
effect of www.sorelosers.com . Suffice to say that I was
disappointed..... :-(
What does a backyard movie have to do with what we're discussing here?
Yet, isn't there something slighlty unpatriotic about apologizing to the
world for the results of the election? And for feeling ashamed about the
political preferences of a majority of American voters? Wouldn't
patriotism ordinarily suggest that as Americans we work out our differences
"in house" (or "in the family" if you will)?
No, that's isolationism, not patriotism. You might not want to admit it, but we are living *on a planet* with *other nations* comprised of *other people*. And there are more of them than there are of us. At the very least it behooves us to not act with arbitrary arrogance; while this is not a lesson yet understood by the goons in the US government, I'd hope individuals, who are not bound by their own actions into a set course from which no deviance is possible, might be capable of seeing a larger picture.
Duh-bya is stuck. Cheney's hand is so deep in his backside he has no choice but to do what he does, even if it means destroying essentially every alliance we've made in the last fifty years. That problem, however, is not yours, nor mine nor anyone else's.
How do you rationally think we can "fight" a "war on terror" without allies? Take it a step further: How can we possibly win allies with the creeps we have in charge now? The world is NOT going to change for the sake of the US. You might want to absorb that fact.
This is real grassroots patriotism. The kind you're suggesting we follow is much closer to nationalism, and I for one refuse to march in lockstep with current policy, because I am certain to my core that it is wrong in every aspect.
"My country, right or wrong" is not thinking. It's not even an argument. It's just plain dumb.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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