Re: Why Some Hate the U.S.

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I fully understand these sentiments.

It seems like we are the first to criticize other countries and the first
to put our nose into everyone else's business.  Yet when we make mistakes,
like a missile gone astray, or an Air Force hot shot flying a plane into a
ski lift with 20 Europeans on it, no one will apologize.

Our arrogance and self-serving policies are unfortunately creating more
and more anti-American sentiments around the world.  Do we really want the
rest of the world to hate us?



On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Gerard M Foley wrote:

> A friend this morning remarked that a niece had died aboard Egyptair 990.
> This reminded me of what I have noted before on the list.  The Egyptair
> representative on the joint investigation of this crash filed a dissenting
> opinion.  He specified several cases of problems with B767 horizontal
> stabilizers.  I searched the net for any response to this dissent, and what
> I found was a simple reassertion that the NTSB had devised a coherent
> reasonable account of the events leading up to the crash.  I cannot find any
> refutation of the specific assertions in the dissenting opinion.   As far as
> I can see, the U.S. investigators just said "We know what happened, so shut
> up.  We'll agree not to issue any finding, we'll just leak it and say that
> we don't want to upset Egypt for political reasons."
>
> Another civil airline matter relevant to the attitude towards the U.S.
> relates to the USS Vincennes shooting down an Iranian Airbus.   As far as I
> know the U.S. has never paid compensation to the survivors of the victims on
> the grounds that the money might wind up with the Iranian government.
>
> I suspect there are other examples of arrogance relating to air traffic that
> I am unaware of.
>
> People on the Eclipse list have been upset by the appendage I have felt
> moved to put on my e-mail signature.  In fact I am a US Citizen, have never
> lived in Germany, but I feel as powerless as Good Germans did in the 1930's.
> My personal opposition to the Nazi Party predated January 30,1933.  Perhaps
> I should put quotation marks around the appendage to my signature.  If no
> one ever said it, I am sure there were millions who said nearly the same
> thing.
>
> I'm not trying to be provocative, I just want people to think.
>
> Gerry
> "I am a good German.  I did not vote for the Nazis.  I don't care
> who they send to the camps or what they do there as long as
> they don't send me."
>
> http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/africar/africa.html
> http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley
> http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html
>

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