[lbo-talk] Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt: Ahmadinejad

Aditya Mopur mopuradityabharadwaj at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 1 20:07:10 PDT 2006


To be fair(in the Fox News sense), few of the countries he mentions have had 200 years in which to build up and solidify national myths and legends.

-Aditya -- "All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." -Albert Einstein

----- Original Message ---- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>

On Jun 1, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> No disagreement here, but otoh I do not think that the
> US is much worse than other nations in their ritual
> invocations of their national virtues. Europeans do
> pretty much the same, albeit with less bombast and
> drama. The Latin Americans are heavy flag wavers, and
> the Canadians do not leave home without their maple
> leaf either. AFIK, the Chinese and the Africans are
> quite good at patting themselves on their backs, and I
> suspect the Indians are not far behind (Ulhas? Ravi?).

Yeah, but few of the countries you mention have killed millions in imperial wars.

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