whilst it's tempting to make comparisons between Hussein and Hitler, I'm not convinced the parallels are there.
w -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 October 2002 14:55 To: CF-Community Subject: Re: France? Of course, you are dealing with the same people who thought Neville Chamberlin was a genius and there would be "Peace in our time" Obviously this mentality of appeasment hasn't changed. I am for letting the UN have one more go at it and if they don't do what they are supposed to or if Irag doesn't do what they are supposed then we'll do what we have to do. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Swain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 3:35 AM Subject: RE: France? > I don't know a single person here who is in favour of a war on Iraq. > > Interestingly, I was in Ireland for a fortnight recently, and I gauged > public opinion there was about the same as it is here. There is a deal of > anger that the US are leading us into this situation, for dubious reasons. > > w > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Gilchrist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 October 2002 18:48 > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: France? > > > I just heard that the same thing is on the rise in Ireland and that US > tourists are starting to complain about occasional verbal abuse. This > really is a saddening new departure because whatever about the > stereotype of Irish friendliness to tourists, bad sentiment towards the > US unheard of what with there being huge ties (mostly familial) to the > US. > > Anti-Iraq war sentiment seems to be in full swing in Europe. I've read > a little that even Tony Blair is meeting resistance has to focus inward > on making the case for war to his own constituency(any Brits care to > comment, I'd be interested to hear? ;-) > > Just an observation. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harkins,Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:39 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: France? > > > I lived in France for 8 months and saw some nasty attitudes towards > tourists among the French. But I also saw ignorant American tourists > become angry when the people in the country they were visiting did not > speak English, and I had the impression this was a not uncommon > occurence. I don't like it, but it is understandable that people develop > a bad attitude when they have been burned. I guess this whole attitude > thing is another manifestation of the xenophobic and racist side of the > French, which it is true is present. On the other hand when we start to > generalize we immediately are doing the same kind of thing, in my > opinion. Like any other individual or collectivity, they have their > demons to wrestle with... > > Patrick > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Beth F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:29 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: France? > > > > > > > Can you give some examples of that? And I don't mean examples of > > > specific special interest groups not respecting the US > > (that is what you > > > mean by us, right?), but the mainstream French. > > > > > > Parisians are pretty unpleasant to Americans travelling to France. I > > realize parisians are not the total population. > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
