Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
18:21 - Hey Europe-- ask yourselves why they hate you
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62387-2004Mar16.html
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This WaPo story requires registration, but it's worth it if just to act as yogurt on sunburn today:
Sociologist Emilio Lamo de Espinosa says Europeans have been dreaming. Writing in Le Monde (in French), Lamo says Europeans have thought they would be spared because they haven't supported the Bush administration's policies.
"When the Americans declared war on terrorism, many of us thought they exaggerated. Many thought terrorism was not likely to occur on our premises, [inhabited by] peaceful and civilized Europeans who speak no evil of anybody, who dialogue, who are the first [to] send assistance and offer cooperation. We are pacifists, they are warmongers. . . . . Don't we defend the Palestinians? Are we not pro-Arab and anti-Israeli?"
"Can we dialogue with those who desire only our death and nothing but our death?" Lamo asks. "Dialogue about what? The manner in which we will be assassinated?"
"The war against terrorism will be long and difficult," he concludes. "It was that cretin, President Bush, who said that."
You know, if you want to change y'all's mind and come along and help us fight, we won't hold any of these past couple years against you.
Seriously.
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