From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 21:19:18 MST
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> ...This is international law, not just US preference, US
> unilateralism, or US cowboying.
A totally irrelevant aside, please. What is it about
cowboys? Specifically, why are people always picking on
them? Why is it that we get a mental picture of a
drawling American cowboy living totally by his own rule
of law? Does not every nation on earth have cows?
If so, do they not also have cowboys? Do they not
spin lariats and wear cow gear? And utter such profound
phrases as "get along leetle dogies"?
I don't see why the same conditions would not exist
elsewhere and require all the same behaviors.
I have personally known only one cowboy, and he
was a perfectly normal, gentle person.
I foresee a day when beef will be created from
headless floating objects that can only loosely
be called cows. In that day, I see no reason
why a cowboy would be any different from any
other boy, or any other factory worker, no
ten-gallon hat required. What image would we
then use for that independent self-reliant
attitude? Whatever it is, I want to be that, now.
spike
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