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Volker Tonn wrote:

Barry Carlton schrieb:

I don't hate America.. I certainly don't agree with some of the
things that your country has done, nor many things that my own
country has done, but that didn't mean that I hate them.

Also am I not a leftist. I do wonder why the assumption that
pacifism must somehow be coupled to leftism is made so frequently.

Full ACK. I live in germany and I know what "history has done badly"
to my parents and and parents in law's families. Some years back when
I travelled USA southwest I met lots of people and almost all of them
were lack of knowing even the basic history of their own country....
Not to speak from anything actually was happening in the world. They
had simply not an idea of it. They were all VERY friendly people
-running with blinders-. So some shortwave listeners in the US are a
great exception on this.

The continental US is large and composed 50 states. That is many states
that have their own issues to keep track of similar in scale to all of
Europe. Plenty of news and commerce to keep anyone occupied is
generated here. The rest of the world despite technology is still much
farther away and has less influence on their lives. So what else would
you expect from them?

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Telamon
Ventura, California