As an American, I think it is your right to hate me, hate anyone, if you like. I don't have to agree or even like it. But if you come over here, kill my people, try to kill me, and call me the great devil, then I'm not going sit here and take it. Situation:
Two people are fighting across the street. It's a great idea to talk to them, from you safe side of the street and try to get them to stop and talk to each other. I'm all for it. Now let's say they wuit fightig, for a while, but then they start again. You talk to them from your safe side of the street and get them to calm down again. Then one pulls a knife. Their figh escalates. Then the guy with the knofe comes accros to your side of the street, stabs you in the arm, abviously a non fatal wound, but it hurts like hell. What are you going to do? Talk to him some more? He's about to stab you again. This time it could be fatal. You don't know , and there's no time to talk it out. You pull a handgun and blow his head off. Is that murder?
I'll care what you other non-american people think when you've been stabbed. England and Spain know how it feels. Ask them.
For you Americans calling for Bush's impeachment;
you'd be calling for the death penalty of that person who killed his attacker above. Idiots.
If one is an honest person and calls it as one sees it, one often forgets to remind everyone one is telling the truth. Why be so concerned with informing people one is speaking the truth, unless one wants to be sure people know when one IS in fact telling the truth. Undue stress on what is and is not truth implies that one does not tell the truth regularly. The need to remind people of what is true simply doesn't occur to an honest person. "Let your nay be nay, and your yeah be yeah."
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As an American, I think it is your right to hate me, hate anyone, if you like. I don't have to agree or even like it. But if you come over here, kill my people, try to kill me, and call me the great devil, then I'm not going sit here and take it. Situation:
Two people are fighting across the street. It's a great idea to talk to them, from you safe side of the street and try to get them to stop and talk to each other. I'm all for it. Now let's say they wuit fightig, for a while, but then they start again. You talk to them from your safe side of the street and get them to calm down again. Then one pulls a knife. Their figh escalates. Then the guy with the knofe comes accros to your side of the street, stabs you in the arm, abviously a non fatal wound, but it hurts like hell. What are you going to do? Talk to him some more? He's about to stab you again. This time it could be fatal. You don't know , and there's no time to talk it out. You pull a handgun and blow his head off. Is that murder?
I'll care what you other non-american people think when you've been stabbed. England and Spain know how it feels. Ask them.
For you Americans calling for Bush's impeachment; you'd be calling for the death penalty of that person who killed his attacker above. Idiots.
If one is an honest person and calls it as one sees it, one often forgets to remind everyone one is telling the truth. Why be so concerned with informing people one is speaking the truth, unless one wants to be sure people know when one IS in fact telling the truth. Undue stress on what is and is not truth implies that one does not tell the truth regularly. The need to remind people of what is true simply doesn't occur to an honest person. "Let your nay be nay, and your yeah be yeah."