Re: OT Hatred (was Re: New Ada compiler for .NET)

[Michal Nowak <vinnie@inetia.pl>]

On 2002-12-10 at 09:46 Hyman Rosen wrote:

>I'm sure that empty hands will work very well against
>synchronized artillery attacks from miles away. Reminds
>me of the way that the Polish horse cavalry routed the
>invading Germans. Oh, wait. They didn't.

With hope to receive the promised help from western allies.
They were doing their best to defend their own country.
I don't want to say now, that I hate Frenchman or Englishman,
because over half a century ago their army did not 
responded to German attack. I don't care about all these
military treaties and I wish there were no armies nor wars
(yes, I know that nobody wants it) and all the big money spent
for armament went for ecology, food and other peaceful
purposes. I'm ashamed for my countrymen shouting, that now we
don't like Russians and love Americans, who 20 years ago cried
exactly opposite. NATO expands to the east and our president is
saying that he will do whatever Bush wishes, that our army is for
his disposal. And that one day someone will get the idea to invade
Russia - why not, they're not in NATO, we don't like them, maybe
they plot something against us - not enough reasons? And that
one day we will blow up the whole Earth and everything will go
to hell. All that does not impose that I don't like Americans
or Chinese or Russians because their governments undertake steps 
I don't approve. Many people tend to associate a nation with
a stereotype and treat individual persons according to it.

The longer I read this thread, the more I realize that something
is wrong. With the world or with me. Maybe I'm to naive or 
not mature enough or not educated enough wishing that there
was only peace everywhere and that everyone was living in 
happiness and abundance. Or maybe I was born in wrong times...

   - Michal


"The matter is not where we are, but when we are"
Charlton Heston as George Taylor in "The Planet of the Apes"