----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad DeLong" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>
> A large chunk of the guilt still hasn't kicked in. At the meeting
> where I met Andrei Ilarionov, I said that I feared U.S. steel
> tariffs would greatly harm the interests of the workers of
> Magnitogorsk--and that the U.S. has never acknowledged the debt that
> it owes their grandparents for building the tanks that broke the back
> of the Nazi army.
>
> Something totally obvious, historically completely true--yet never
> said inside the U.S. Hell, DeeDee Myers thought I was an idiot for
> saying that Yeltsin should be invited to the 1994 DDay commemoration.
>
> At least Ilarionov seemed to like it...
>
>
> Brad DeLong
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Ok, but why should young people, who have paid next to nothing in terms of taxes that go to aid Israel, feel "guilty" of anything at all about the horrors of the 20th, 19th 18th, back to the apple tree centuries.........................
Ian