From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: RE: Reply to Bart
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 01:54:09 -0000



Roger wrote


> as a rhetorical question i'd just pose the query 
> as to whether this 'manifestation of American Nationalism'
> consists of anything other than disagreeing with you?


Oh I think it does.
The remarks about the French, for instance, that them
being anti-war doesn't count because they have poor
personal hygiene, looks like more than just disagreeing
with me. 


> what troubles me most about your recent rants has been 
> the assumption that there is something unique and especially 
> pernicious about the amerikan state.  


I have never said there was anything unique about it.
However, I do think it is an especially  _dangerous_
state at present. Even more so than Britain, 
which is saying something.


> case in point:  how are the french govt's actions 
> in cote d'ivorie ANY DIFFERENT than the propesed 
> us/british action in iraq?  


Sheer scale.


> i don't consider myself a nationalist of any kind, 
> and i tend to share your views about the class struggle, 
> but you folks in hibernia are getting a bit hsyterical.


(1) I'm not in hibernia
(2) I am opposed to war and to the would-be dictator
    Tony Blair who is seeking to drag us into a foreign
    war as a means of trying to distract from the failure
    of his policies at home. I hope it will be possible
    to stop mad Tony through peaceful means. But
    he does have to be stopped. What's hysterical
    about that? 


Dave Coull