Posted by Declan on May 20, 2006, at 15:12:53
In reply to Re: opposing a policy » AuntieMel, posted by Estella on May 19, 2006, at 7:45:39
People are patriotic in various ways. Some people aren't patriotic. Anyway I see the American people as patriotic in a way that is quite different to how Australians, for example, are. Australians are not patriotic like that. Winston Churchill remarked of Menzies that 'he leads a country he hates'. There are things you could say about Australia I would find offensive...I can't think of any offhand. And somehow, as an Australian, I find it bad form (British influence!) to have *public* feelings about my country. I do think the American people are temperamentally unsuited to being at the centre of whatever they are at the centre of. And the national differences are the big ones here. I realise this belongs on Politics, but since I read it here here it goes.
Declan
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