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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Poet who wrote (31548)10/10/2001 7:31:23 AM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Until we can be be honest about our own country's shortfallings in that regard, it's going to be tough indeed to expect painful self-examination from the eastern hemisphere.

A problem I see is that most governments in Asia don't seem at all inclined to self-examination, painful or otherwise - even if they were sufficiently stable and supported to do so. Nor do the more vocal elements in their populations inspire or desire such.

Instead any admission of guilt or failure by the US (especially) is seen as an excuse for no change or worse behaviour on their part, and possibly as a justification for demanding compensation, retraction or retreat by the West, or even revenge upon us...

The problem is whether we recognise these double standards. To do so would be more inflaming now; but not to do so would leave the problem there, and the conditions in place for more anti-Western feeling later...
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