> >Well, I do like to stir the pot now and then, but I didn't realize
> >the frothing boil I would create with my comment about cheering when
> >the White House, etc. got incinerated. What was suggested here was
> >that many people found release for their own sense of economic and
> >political oppression when they saw what for them had become the
> >symbols and totems of imperialism. If the IMF and the World Bank
> >had recognizable totems we would have cheered all the louder if
> >they had been destroyed.
>
> Well I am not American, I don't live in the States, I never even went
> there ( as you can see I am cautious ).
> But I think that you stretch things a lot.
> I don't know if many of the cheering people where making a political
> statement.
> I think that the sheer power of these images of destruction where enough
> to create cheering.
I agree with you, Eric. I _am_ a disaffected American (I label
myself "spiritually expatriate"), and I cheered, but only because of
the bloody good pyrotechnics. I cheer during firework displays, as
well. However, this thread makes me wonder whether patriotism has become
a prerequisite for membership of this list.
I hope not, as I would certainly hate to resign. List Master, how
about killing this thread?
Cheers,
Chas
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