Originally posted by Boroda:
Miko, what surprises me is that you seem to raise hatred towards Russians. Why? Is it only because you declare yourself a "former Russian, now - American
I am sorry you've got this impression. Even in that particular post I was carefill to say
Some of our russian friends.
I am sure no one will think worse about all russians because of thas stupid picture.
I probably should have mentioned that most of the posts on the same russian board were supportive of americans - for fairness sake. My mistake.
Before referring people to this picture, I posted much harsher messages on this board about americans.
One was my disgust about what I saw on Friday after the tragedy in Union Square.
The other one implied that americans are a nation of cowards (Devils Advocate).
Make no mistake, I am an american, but I feel and have expresed on this board my shame for what we allowed to happen due to our conceipt and stupidity.
In fact I posted that picture not because I disliked russians but because I dislike the way americans are behaving.
Right now we do all kinds of flag waving and posting funny pictures of our enemies and assurances in their destruction.
I wanted to illustrate that the outcome of the struggle is far from determined. So far we have been caught with our pants down. We were living in a glass house and throwing stones. We might have been right in most cases but stupid nevertheless.
The terrorists are smart people and know what they are doing.
We have probably as much chance to supress the terrorism as the radical muslim fundamentalists have of taking control of the whole Middle East with it's oil productuion, or at least disrupting that production to hell.
People here pity the people who died in WTC... But speaking about USA as a state or regime - many people say they don't feel sorry. That is ignorance speaking. We may allegedly have a lousy state or regime but that is because of US democracy. Being fulled for the past hundred years, russians cannot believe that we have real democracy but it is true that we do.
People who worked and died in the towers had as much (or more) say in the way our country is run as anyone else. We all equally deserved and allowed that tragedy to happen.
Anyone who feels sorry for dead americans but gloats over the trouble to our regime is just ignorant.
miko
[ 09-24-2001: Message edited by: miko2d ]
