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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (5349)	2/4/2003 7:57:51 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

It is true men of character who stand up for their beliefs and aren't afraid to state what those beliefs are even if it goes against the majority. So those "men of character" would, by definition, include those individuals whose (stated) beliefs include this increasingly unpopular one: that Iraq's military and government should be brutally shredded by cruise missiles and guided munitions due to their support of terrorism, their having repeatedly flouted their agreed-upon obligations vis a vis disclosure where weapons of mass destruction are indicated, etc. Right? LPS5

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (5349)	2/4/2003 8:39:54 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 25898

The new Jewish war against Europe. Jews have free reign to smear anyone in its endless dual moral standard. Jews of course are beyond criticism. Anti-Europeanism in America, The New York Review of Books, February 13, 2003 "This year, especially if the United States goes to war against Iraq, you will doubtless see more articles in the American press on 'Anti-Americanism in Europe.' But what about anti-Europeanism in the United States? Consider this: To the list of polities destined to slip down the Eurinal of history, we must add the European Union and France's Fifth Republic. The only question is how messy their disintegration will be. (Mark Steyn, Jewish World Review, May 1, 2002) And: Even the phrase 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' is used [to describe the French] as often as the French say 'screw the Jews.' Oops, sorry, that's a different popular French expression. (Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online, July 16, 2002) Or, from a rather different corner: "You want to know what I really think of the Europeans?" asked the senior State Department Official. "I think they have been wrong on just about every major international issue for the past 20 years." (Quoted by Martin Walker, UPI, November 13, 2002) ... Pens are dipped in acid and lips curled to pillory 'the Europeans,' also known as 'the Euros,' 'the Euroids," "the 'peens," or "the Euroweenies." Richard Perle, now chairman of the Defense Policy Board, says Europe has lost its 'moral compass' and France its 'moral fiber.' This irritation extends to the highest levels of the Bush administration. In conversations with senior administration officials I found that the phrase 'our friends in Europe' was rather closely followed by 'a pain in the butt.' The current stereotype of Europeans is easily summarized. Europeans are wimps. They are weak, petulant, hypocritical, disunited, duplicitous, sometimes anti-Semitic and often anti-American appeasers ... Two prominent American journalists, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times and Joe Klein of The New Yorker, back from extensive book tours around the United States, separately told me that wherever they went they found anti-French sentiment— you would always get a laugh if you made a dig at the French ... [Jonah] Goldberg told me that when he started writing anti-French pieces for National Review in 1998 he found 'there was a market for it.' French-bashing became, he said, 'a shtick.'" ... Conservative writ-ers such as Jonah Goldberg and Mark Steyn make outrageous statements, some of them obviously humorous, some semi-serious, some quite serious. If you object to one of the serious ones, they can always reply 'but of course I was only joking!' Humor works by exaggeration and playing with stereotypes. But if a European writer were to describe 'the Jews' as 'matzo-eating surrender monkeys' would that be understood as humorous banter?"