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Jay Honeck wrote in
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There is no reason to think we would. On the other hand Nikita
Khrushchev said, "We will bury you!"

I'm sure that Wolfgang and Thomas were taught that Khrushchev's famous
line was referring only to being buried "economically"... It is to
weep.



You'd have made a great little porpogandist. You're very fond of putting
words in peoples mouths.

I suppose in the mind of someonewho thinks that siting in a go-kart while
playing a nintendo is flying and who builds some sort of aviation
disneland that's to be expected.


Bertie

Jay Honeck schrieb:

Wolfgang and Thomas are the unfortunate products of their societies --
which brings me full circle back to where I started, with the
statement: "Why did we bother?"

.... and all this crap said by a person who has never been to another
country, even for holidays. His only wisdom is from his 'education' and
'life-experience'. Holy **** .. and he has kids; hopefully they do better.

#m
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
...
There is no reason to think we would. On the other hand Nikita Khrushchev
said, "We will bury you!"

I'm sure that Wolfgang and Thomas were taught that Khrushchev's famous
line was referring only to being buried "economically"... It is to
weep.

I understand how a defeated nation like Germany might subtly inflect
their history books to cast shadows on the victors -- it's human
nature to do so -- but for any German to cast such a positive light on
the SOVIETS (of all people!) is just amazing.

Possibly because they had more in common (and were allies up to 1941) with
the Soviets than to the US.

Also, consider how distorted is Japan's teaching of history to their young;
not too far from them being the victims even before Hiroshima, and
completely ignoring the "Rape of Nanking", etc.

See any similarity between those (Japan and German) to the present
Islamofascists?

Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:

brutality is not
a cultural trait of this or that country, but a sad part of human
nature. All human cultures have to deal with this fact somehow.


Well said. Thanks.
On the whole we've slowly learned from our mistakes, and the world's a
better place than it was before. But we progress with agonizing
slowness sometimes.

-Stella

Wolfgang Schwanke wrote in :




The legacy is that brutality is not
a cultural trait of this or that country, but a sad part of human
nature. All human cultures have to deal with this fact somehow.


I disagree. While officially sanctioned brutality may not be a part of this
or that country, cultural factors undeniably breed brutality , at least in
certain sectors of it. Poverty ignorance, xenophobia and god knows what
else combine to make some countries positively burn with it. I've been in
more than a few of them.


Bertie