From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 10:02:51 MST
>Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:55:28 -0800
>From: spike66 <spike66@attbi.com>
>Subject: Re: My Blind Spot
>Hubert Mania wrote:
>...
> > Ron, your paranoid political leaders did not only turn French Fries into
> > Freedom Fries...
>Welllll, I would be hesitant to identify the manager
>at the local McDonalds or the White House cafeteria
>menu guy as paranoid political leaders. The freedom
>fries thing was an attempt at a bit of harmless levity,
>with no objection to boosting sales. This world can
>use all the harmless levity we can get.
Up to a point. Back in the 80's, just after a major atrocity by the IRA,
British stores removed from their shelves all Irish products they could get
their hands on. Never mind the fact that the bombers were Nothern Irish
and members of a Northern Irish terrorist organsation (and therefore
British citizens). To be brief, it did nothing to improve relations
between those who were the innocent parties in the tragedy. Not harmless.
And ultimately, if the U.S. is planning to carry this through no matter
what the French (or the many other opposing nations) say, then why the need
for this crap? Simply get stuck in and get the job done. Why the need to
get involved in kindergarten behaviour?
> For that
>matter, it can use all the boosted sales it can get
>too. spike
An equally poor excuse. Americans rightly complain about
"anti-Americanism" directed at them instead of at their political
administration. I guess that's a lesson not yet learned. I expected better.
Childish. Very childish.
James...
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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