Re: Americans kicking frog ass....again
> More relevant is the last 60 years where we've all
> cut each others throats at every chance for economic gain.
> Bill C
Agreed. And you've also hit on what I find to be most ironic- that we don't
look to capitalism to provide the answers. If the amount of money we've
spent on bombing & rebuilding Iraq was instead used to essentially buy them
off... like the good old days... economic self-interest can work for &
against us. Right now, it seems to be working against us (and the rest of
the industrialized world), with China waiting in the wings to pick up the
pieces.
We need to bring this back to bikes though. Remember the old Tour of
Vietnam? My memories of the event are rather fuzzy, but I believe it
continued for some time into the war (obviously held in South Vietnam), but
hazy memories of the actual race, combined with more-vivid memories of the
surfing "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning" scene from Apocalypse
Now, may be merging into something the race never was.
[I'm concerned about contributing to an off-topic post, or do we get points
for *anything* that's not related to the Tour de France during July?]
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
"Bill C" <tritonrider@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
>> > Speaking of things that must suck, it must REALLY suck on this 4th of
>> > July
>> > to be a French hating American and to know that without the
>> > participation
>> > of
>> > the French in the American Revolution, there wouldn't BE a United
>> > States
>> > of
>> > America to send riders to a super cool French bikerace.
>> >
>> > May God bless America and may God bless France.
>>
>> Yeah, you gotta wonder what the French now think of Lafayette. I also
>> wonder
>> just how few Americans have a clue about that part of our history, or
>> understand the significance that the park across the street from the
>> White
>> House is Layafette Park. My guess is that at least one person in the
>> White
>> House hasn't a clue about that...
>>
>> --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
>> www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
> Mike your right, but it's been a serious give and take relationship. I
> don't think Bush could've sold the Iraq war if France wasn't fighting
> so hard to lift the UN sanctions against Hussein, and blatantly
> violating them. France issued statements in support of the Un decisions
> while it was completely ignoring them and doing everything they could
> to have the sanctions lifted so that ELF could continue doing their
> blood for oil relationship with Iraq. Russia and Germany were just as
> guilty. Everybody including the US was ignoring international law and
> agreements in the name of national interest. Bringing up what happened
> 200n years ago is moronic, because none of the nations is even close to
> what they were then. More relevant is the last 60 years where we've all
> cut each others throats at every chance for economic gain.
> Bill C
>
