Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 06:06:09 11/11/00
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On November 11, 2000 at 06:00:07, Ritter Rost wrote: >One >irrational compensatorical mechanism of leftists which are also more sensible >about history is anti-americanism. thats nonsense. there are many reasons why to be anti-american. you don't need to use psychology to explain. they kill people by government, which isn't civilized in the 21st century. they have many people in prison, more than any other country in the world (thats IMO not an indicator for civilisation or culture or right living-style IMO), they are rich but still people starve and they don't really have a social system like europeans have. they allow to wear weapons. this is not civilized IMO. people should be able to live with each other in the 21st century without weapons. >Some Germans do not cope with the question why the nation as a whole was not >severely punished by victorious America but rather got huge economic help to >prosper brilliantly after the war. and ? i was born 66. 2 brothers and the father of my mom where killed while they bombed the houses of cicil-citizens. i will never understand why armys HAVE TO throw bombs on civil-citizens. i will not understand it for germany, not for hiroshima, not for jugoslavia and will not excuse it whatever you say. killing people , who are no soldiers, isn't exactly what i would call fair. if german army would have bombed america , how would they have felt ? >They cannot reconcile this with their black >and white view of the world where everything must be either good or bad. nonsense. the americans should have better given this grace to the indians they killed, and the black people they "imported" to work as slaves. but germany was more interesting, because better to exploit. also from a strategical point of view: germany was the door to the russians, in cold-war thinking. so americans have to make peace with germans to settle on this terretory. all the nuernberger-process and other war-law-suits have been made very harmless not to provoke the german people. so the real nazis never got punished for what they did. if you tell us about grace of americans concerning US, you also have to see that they never really brought the nazis into prison. >Antiamericanism was rather fashionable in the 70s/80s but has petered out today. >You cannot generalize this to "Europeans". :-)))) antiamericanism is not exactly what it is. its more the understanbding that the anglo-american way of life is not what i want to see rebuild in europe again. they shall take their donuts and hollywood and live in peace, but shall let us alone. i am really not interested about the sex-life of Mr.Gerhard Schroeder. Nor do i want to see his famous western-movies. >Apologies for the OT stuff.
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