Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/08
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Harrison McClary wrote:
>
> AJSymi@aol.com wrote:
>
> > (or editors'/readers' lack of interest in foreign matters)
>
> Here you hit the nail on the head. "Editors/readers lack of interest in foreign
> matters". Unfortunately most people in America now want to ignore the rest of
> the world and pretend "their" problems will in no way affect us. Things
> happening in Asia and the failing economies are too distant to worry with.
> Individuals civil liberties and rights being trampled under the treads of a tank in
> China are no worry to us, hell our president even goes there and acts all
> chummy with those responsible for massacring those defenceless students.
Yeah, reminded me of Reagan visiting Bitburg...
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| children could be murdered with utter impunity in the war of
| wars, the most silent, the most undeclared war, the war that
| goes by the name of peace." --Eduardo Galeano