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-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 October 2002 15:36 To: CF-Community Subject: Re: France? I am not comparing Hitler to Hussein, rather the mentality of Europeans when faced with a dictator. Appeasement doesn't work. Plain and simple. Obviously Europeans learned nothing from their mistake of appeasement in WWII. Being a peacenik is fine. But it doesn't work when faced with someone who has no intention of making peace at all. How else would the situation in Afghanastan been resolved? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Swain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:31 AM Subject: RE: France? > 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 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
