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To: Thomas M. who wrote (15088)	6/4/2002 12:18:12 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

I think that was very perceptive and right on the money Journalistic Work....not sure what has irritated you, except Jewish name of the Author (Not Whoopy..<gg> The only criticism from me, it that is ridiculous to compare figuratively Many Centuries of European History with its rivalaries, prejucies and numerous wars, with brand New, New World, York vs New York, so to speak...But the point of the author is well taken, a declining Europe would show its ugly face once again, surely this time around not many Jews would not stick around long enough, with Arabs/North Africans squarely taking Fury of the "Cultured Europeans" for High Unempoyment, Declining Standards of Living, and Rapidly Rising Crime....

To: Thomas M. who wrote (15088)	6/6/2002 9:32:50 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Actually, I more or less concur with the article... The problem, I think, is that Europeans and Americans don't share the same cultural benchmarks, hence their worldviews somehow lie askew towards each other.... Re: In other words, Europeans should support colonialism because they have committed the crime in the past. An interesting legal and moral stance, no doubt. This leads to the idea that Germany should have sent weapons and money to Rwanda during their little bloodfest a few years ago, because to to otherwise would be hypocritical, what with the holocaust and all. Following WWI, Germany was deprived of her African colonies... and both Ruanda and Urundi (today's Burundi) were granted to Belgium (Versailles Treaty). That's why France and Belgium were involved in the 1994 genocide in Ruanda. Ruanda's then-president Habyarimana was a close "friend" of the Belgian king Baldwin. Hence the latter was --posthumously-- suspected of having supported the Ruandan regime and its murderous ethnic cleansing... Gus