For some reason, I can’t log-out and log-in under my own username here. This is grant.
I just wanted to say I agree that there may be some Americans who support the war only because the government is saying it’s a good thing to do, but I would be very surprised if that were a majority of Americans. And I appreciate how important it is that Americans become aware of the perspectives of other nations around the world. But I myself am in contact with anti-war and anti-American stances all the time. Even within our own American news organizations, I watch interviews challenging Powell on the Israeli-preference issue and Rumsfeld on issues of the treatment of Iraqi civilians. I wonder if perhaps nations around the world do not get enough of the American perspective, and therefore do not know what it’s like to see the world from the stance of a nation that doesn’t want terrorism to put it’s democratic values in jeopardy.
asybes
Apr 19 2003
12:29 pm
For some reason, I can’t log-out and log-in under my own username here. This is grant.
I just wanted to say I agree that there may be some Americans who support the war only because the government is saying it’s a good thing to do, but I would be very surprised if that were a majority of Americans. And I appreciate how important it is that Americans become aware of the perspectives of other nations around the world. But I myself am in contact with anti-war and anti-American stances all the time. Even within our own American news organizations, I watch interviews challenging Powell on the Israeli-preference issue and Rumsfeld on issues of the treatment of Iraqi civilians. I wonder if perhaps nations around the world do not get enough of the American perspective, and therefore do not know what it’s like to see the world from the stance of a nation that doesn’t want terrorism to put it’s democratic values in jeopardy.