Posted by Tamar on March 4, 2006, at 22:13:57
In reply to Re: 5, posted by 5 on March 4, 2006, at 3:34:20
I’m a bit confused here and haven’t been keeping track of developments. My mother-in-law is in hospital and this week all three kids were ill (the baby needed emergency surgery). So I apologise for my inability to keep track of things but I’ve had a lot going on.
5, I can’t help but think you might be in an impossible situation. Perhaps you want to discuss a critique of US foreign policy, but the difficulty is that many people in the US are probably still feeling very vulnerable. (I’m not in the US, as you might know.) I think until people in the US feel safer, it’ll be hard to have a very open and frank debate about US foreign policy. Maybe I’m being too pessimistic. But I do know that in Europe there’s a great deal of ambivalence about US foreign policy and perhaps that accords with perspectives from the Southern Hemisphere. And yet in the US I think there’s still a sense of being attacked.
I don’t think we can do much about it. It’s hard to accept how strongly people feel about it, especially if they live in different circumstances. I think a lot of water needs to pass under the bridge before the US can see itself as the face of crime control and retributive justice. Just my two cents…
Tamar
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