[lit-ideas] Re: Dark Thoughts on Iraq
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:22:37 +0100
Friday, September 30, 2005, 2:43:47 AM, Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote:
JE> . But I don't want to see an
JE> old-style isolationist US.
Eac> Hi, Judy...
Eac>
Eac> Would you explain why you would not?
by "old-style isolationist US" I mean the isolationism of the
Thirties. It's easiest to quote:
>Hitler came to power in January of 1933, the Second Great War began in
>1939, and America didn?t join the war until December of 1941
perhaps that explains why I would not.
Eac> Since we are so disliked everywhere, in some respects <g>,
Eac> I often think that would be not so bad...
alternatively you could look -- as of course many in the US do -- at
why "you" are "so disliked everywhere, in some respects", if, that is,
that is indeed correct.
(You have probably not seen a full list of countries who offered aif
after Katrina. Or perhaps that does not count.)
Eac> I mean--we'd not be the so-called saviors any longer;
I don't know who calls you saviours
Eac> we'd
Eac> be focusing on our own problems and taking care of our own
Eac> people;
I certainly hope so. You could start by protesting against cuts in
Medicaid to pay for Katrina aid relief.
Eac> we'd let Others be grown-ups in their own countries
Eac> and
Eac> [hopefully] their own personal actions would be such that they
Eac> would move towards collective personal growth and development in
Eac> a healthy way without our meddling interference;
we think we do reasonably well right now, Marlena
Eac> we'd get
Eac> control, again, of our so-called global corporate world which is
Eac> draining the world dry and hurting the Earth;
you mean you could control your corporations better if they were
confined to the US? (now there's a millennial dream!)
Eac> we could create
Eac> that Wall so that the bright smart creative illegal immigrants
Eac> would have to begin True Reform in their Own Nation of Mexico (or
Eac> wherever--
this is satire, right?
Eac> okay, kind of tough love, but hey...we're talking
Eac> long-term health here of those they love and currently send
Eac> money home to assist...)
like the Irish and the Italians? perhaps you should send them home
Eac> ; Europe would become who it was born to
Eac> be
I don't know what it was born to be or what you think it's like right
now
Eac> [and that we long to visit
OK, you haven't been here
Eac> and, of course, there would still
Eac> be *some* visiting going on...]
by you, yes. Whether we would be allowed into the US is I suppose to
be decided.
Eac> ; etc etc.
quite
Eac> There is, as you all know, the part of me which IS an
Eac> isolationist. and, since I cannot fix everything (yet <g>), I'd
Eac> sometimes like to scale down so that we can fix what needs to be
Eac> fixed...feed those in our own neighborhoods, etc.
which would be a damn good idea.
Eac>
Eac> and, besides. I'm tired of hearing how horrible Americans
Eac> are...
so who are all these people who keep telling you how horrible
Americans are?
Eac> the personality type of me that is not the puzzled 'why
Eac> don't they like me' says to just hole up and run away. Harden
Eac> the heart and shift the shoulder and focus on those who are my
Eac> own...
like you did till Pearl Harbor.
Eac> isn't that the way of Confucius? To take care of 'the
Eac> family' only?
doesn't sound much like it to me
Eac> (Granted, part of me says get rid of the federal
Eac> government and just be nation-states as states, too...okay,
Eac> counties. Okay--we want separate from Kansas City. Eastern
Eac> parts of counties separate from Western. Or maybe just feudal
Eac> cities again...)
yes well, I'm an internationalist.
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