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From: dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: America-bashing
Message-ID: <3366@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 19:23:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 19:23:48 1985
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> There are a number of reasons why the rest of the world hates America.
> These have nothing to do with "image" or irrational hate but history
> and current facts.

[A list of "images"]


The hate may be very real, but does it make the attacks on US citizens more
acceptable?  Are we supposed to start beating on ourselves as well?  Do you
honestly believe that if the US became more docile that the attacks would
stop?

There has been a rationale on the net (as well as other places) concerning
terrorism/hijacking that is remarkably similar to the following line of
thinking:  If a woman is attacked, she asked for it.  Her attacker hates
women, because his mother/wife/whoever did him wrong, and so he sees women
as the cause of all his problems.  Since she is a woman, she drove him to do
it.  Therefore, she must change her ways, if this sort of thing is to stop.

NONSENSE!

>         tim sevener  whuxl!orb
      
These opinions are strictly my own, and do not necessarily reflect those
of my employer.

David Olson
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"To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools". -- Jean de la Bruyere