From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 19:35:54 MST
spike66 wrote,
> I question the premise.
Question?
> The quiet majority in most
Quiet??
> countries might like America and western Europe.
Might???
> By extrapolation,
Extrapolation????
> One can imagine a number of Iraqis and others in the
> middle east desperately hoping for a US-led rescue.
Imagine?????
> Iraq must have its own budding young capitalists, its
> frustrated intellectuals, its flaming atheists, feminists,
> sexual revolutionaries, internet users, oppressed gays,
> technophiles, classic liberals, hippies, libertarians,
> progressives, its own extropians.
Must have??????
> I must conclude that the
> notion that much of the world is anti-west is an
> intentionally myopic fabrication.
Conclude???????
> All these would yearn for a more western society.
Would????????
> Add them together and it *might* constitute a
> terrified majority in these oppressed countries.
Might?????????
> Let us not assume the world hates the west.
I'm glad you have clarified who is making assumptions.... :-)
Seriously, though. Countries are to big and diverse to stereotype into a
single opinion of whether they hate us or like us. Obviously, there will be
opinions on all sides. There will be different majorities in different
areas. Polls will fluxuate as politics shift and news unfolds.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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