Re: Who Are the US's Allies? Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-30 Thread Ray Ludenia
John D. Giorgis wrote: > And despite you snide remarks about '''fluffing up," there is nothing > fluffed up about calling Japan and Australia major players in foreign > affairs. two glaring omissions from Bob's list. Australia a major player in foreign affairs??? Do you perhaps say this b

Re: Who Are the US's Allies? Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-29 Thread David Hobby
> >> Ahem. ... You have also forgotten Poland, > >> which is the second-largest country in Europe > > > > O.K., second in what sense, then? Russia, Sweden, Finland, > >Norway... are all bigger by area. ... > Sorry, I stand corrected on that one ... > And despite you snide remarks

Re: Who Are the US's Allies? Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-29 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 7/28/2003 9:16:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ahem. You have forgotten Austalia, who was very much a true ally. You > have also forgotten Japan, the leader of which essentially got his > country's constitution ammended so that Japan could help us o

Re: Who Are the US's Allies? Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-29 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 7/28/2003 9:16:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ahem. You have forgotten Austalia, who was very much a true ally. You > have also forgotten Japan, the leader of which essentially got his > country's constitution ammended so that Japan could help us o

Re: Who Are the US's Allies? Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-29 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 01:14 AM 7/29/2003 -0400 David Hobby wrote: >"John D. Giorgis" wrote: >... >> >You are kidding about this. We had one true ally in this Britain. The >> other are either not major players or are >> > anxious to please us (not a bad thing. >> >> Ahem. ... You have also forgotten Poland, >

Re: Who Are the US's Allies? Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-28 Thread David Hobby
"John D. Giorgis" wrote: ... > >You are kidding about this. We had one true ally in this Britain. The > other are either not major players or are > > anxious to please us (not a bad thing. > > Ahem. ... You have also forgotten Poland, > which is the second-largest country in Europe

Who Are the US's Allies? Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-28 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 09:52 PM 7/28/2003 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Bush _used_ the sympathy 9/11 generated to make possible >> something that would not have been possible without it >> - the removal of Saddam Hussein, something that was >> clearly not in the interest of anyone in the region or >> in Europe (s