@msolga,
msolga wrote:
Quote:....it pissed me off to no end to see folks to post their corollary political views about events that have transpired since then, in this thread, and on that day. And it seems that many non-Americans have chosen to post here their caterwauling about post-9/11 events, their despair about the War on Terror. You must know that would inflame some people. Like most Americans, 9/11 still strikes a raw nerve, for me, 10 years later. I remember vividly 20 years ago nearly coming to blows with an English man in a pub in London who was talking ill of the US with regard to the recent events in Iraq, and denigrating the first President Bush. I love my country, and I do not like those who do not.
Tico, you
seriously questioned the rights of some Englishman,
in his own country & probably at his own local pub, to have a view on such things?
And you almost got involved in a punch-up with him because his views were different to yours?
You don't think that was taking your love of your country & your patriotism a wee bit
far?
I certainly can appreciate the sensitivity of the unknown Englishman in his country and local pub, though in this context I do find it a bit odd that, in this case you also sympathize with his sensitivity, but strangely not that of others.
I also note that, in the piece you quoted, Tico has not specified how the confrontation came about and who or what might have incited it, though the context fairly clearly suggests that Tico was responding to someone else's aggression - something he has since confirmed.
You are, as ever, highly judgmental of others, but very tolerant of your own inconsistency in the same matters.
