On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:11:20 GMT, john smith wrote:

Martin Hotze wrote:
I am not anti-American per-se
I don't 'hate' all Americans just for their being American (Americans have
a similar choice for being American as I have for being european) - this
would be crazy and very shortminded.
It is the reckless behaviour outside America from those in command (I really
don't care [well - from a human rights standpoint I do care] what you do
within your border).

Well, if it weren't for the messes the Europeans create, we wouldn't be
where we are.
And if it wasn't for the Americans, the world wouldn't be as well off as
it is today.

America saves the world? Parts of the world would be better off, if
they weren't so well-knit together. And we would be better off if we
didn't presume their interests to be ours.

Please make that B-1 recon flight closer to home. Like right on our
southern border, and I'll thank you. It is my right to complain that
they don't. But the Greater World Trade Center still has the power to
refuse me, and give (no, take) my border as if it were a gift. This
for their Greater World Interests. So my pity, my anger, is not with
you. Your tresspass is a serious one.
I cannot see how giving my border could be thought a genuine gift
to the world! What government in their right mind would want it?
What right does anyone have to force it? The power is what they have,
for a 'unified world,' as they see it. I do not see it that way. The
majority of this country, though full of immigrants, does want its
borders controlled. We have natural resource concerns, and cultural
concerns, so we are betrayed. I am astonished.

I've lived in Abilene, Tx; & seen those B-1 torches as they took off
from Dyess. But my home was closer to Regional, which they would
occasionally use for t&gs, or low passes. Sitting on the port (or
inside the house) from several miles away I could hear that incredible
roar as they occasionally took off from there. I think it was the
B-1. I never actually saw one actually take off, and saw only one low
pass. (I'm still not yet a pilot.) But I don't think anything else
could make that sound.

Mike