Okay, Le Zoob, I’ll give it a go.
Last time I checked, the world IS telling us how to conduct ourselves with someone we have been at war with for 12 years and for which we have been footing the bill with our military. This same world insisted on the opponent playing by their rules, which he did not. All of this was covered quite well a few weeks back. We are also being advised to bend the rules, that were agreed on by said world. The same world kept the opponent in power and presumably wants him to stay in power for whatever reasons.
Further, not even those who are trying to feel good or capitalize on animosity towards France are telling the outside world to change the names of their comestibles.
Comments are being made on the excesses of nationalism. Boy, can the French tell you stories about those dang 1790s, when a rabid form of re-invention took place there! As I recall, the months names were changed, the calendar re-started, new forms of address were begun etc etc. Those events are stuff of high tragedy, not high comedy really. They came about from real emotional responses, not for the entertainment of cynical onlookers.
Beside, it’s your choice to decide that whatever is criticized about your State makes a fool out of you personnally, and out of your people generally.
Zoob, this is the second thread on this same topic in less than two weeks, both started by Europeans to point ridicule at people in our country. To suggest its anything less is disingenuous (because you know the denials will come). If you are going to sling mud, some is bound to spatter others in the general vicinity. I started thread as I was metaphorically wiping it off for the second time in two weeks.
I am sure some ridiculous things happen in other countries in response to world feelings, but I sure would not run to C&F to tell everybody the funny news, which was the point of the thread. As for me implying that it makes a fool out of me personally, I think its the reverse. To watch an outsider cast stones causes me to reflect more on the outsider, even if the intent was the opposite.
What I see is people, individuals. And some are really dangerous, not to Freedonia alone (whose economy is already starting to pay the bill) but to the rest of the Polybalkanian continents. Where the Republic of Garlicia can’t stop things, it is not willing to pay the bill again.
Don’t worry, Iraq has so much oil, no one but the US will have to pay the bill and not a drop of French blood will be shed there. Maybe some of their revenue can be used for non-military purposes without Saddam trying to build WMDs, palaces, pits of oil, statues and pay actors to impersonate him etc etc. Ya think?
PS. Also, sulking is not debating, and refusing to debate is the start of the issue…[/quote]
Who is sulking and who is not debating? There is no debate about freedom fries as serious debate is questionable regarding emotional responses. I was the first to respond to Bloomfield’s topic, I think, in which I said we were being silly Americains. This time, I chose to just make the statement independent of the thread because I found the second time to be offensive in its inception. To that extent, it may be sulking.
Regards,
LeWeeque.
