On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:31:39 UTC, Viajero viajero@quilombo.nl wrote:
On 07/01/04 at 05:25 AM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com said:
I think it's important for the Wikipedia articles to reflect that fact that many Americans take just the attitude you described above:
that America "does something better than most of the world does" by "having an independent judiciary that is largely in the hands of people who understand the concept of due process of law and even approve of it"
Making due note, of course, of such egregious lapses such as the Supreme Court decision which made Bush president. At this point, the US might have something to learn from, say, Bolivia on how to run a fair presidential election.
Jesus Christ, one really can't get away from the America-bashing, can one? Say ANYTHING positive about the country, and one is lectured on its failings.
In using this example (which was also relevant to a point made earlier in the thread) I was hoping it would be obvious to *most* of the non-American readers here that they, too, living in countries that also do better than *most* of the world in this regard, were not being attacked by American chauvinism here.
Actually, I considered putting a disclaimer in the posting, but thought it would be a waste. Wrong again. I need to be more ultra-patriotic American, and assume that any praise of anything in my country will be taken as an attack on the world, foreigners being quite unable (like all too many Americans) to understand such subtleties.