Hardly. I cannot explain about our media policies other than to offer that they are increasingly foreign owned. The ABC network forbids patriotic emblems, Murdock (sp?) and Fox, Reuters, etc. All a bunch of self serving bung holes in most of our minds. We embrace and idolize John Wayne/Clint Eastwood/Charles Bronson mentality and feed the children of those who practice genocide on us. We protect the religious beliefs of some very unsavory types on principle alone. The real facts of the matter are that we tend to think of our allies as "us", probably because we have intermarried to a great degree. Has it really made any difference to anyone that a short while back you made your home in a foreign country? We don't even require you to speak our language to join our society! Our treaties are written in blood and our loyalties are best shown in the worst of times. In spite of the hostilities shown to our nuclear powered vessels, we will defend the land down under should the need occur. Ask Jane Fonda if we forget.... John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 Dixie Competition Products NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eoin Ross" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: [PIC]: Bitscope Unfortunately since moving to the USA I have begun to see why Americans (broad generalization here) SEEM to think that they were the only country outside of Britain involved in WWII ... (and other wars) The media (including the history channel etc) focus solely on US involvement with never a mention of Aussie, Kiwi, Canadian, Indian, Russian (yes they were an ally at one point) Malaysian etc etc etc troops. ( I did hear that N.Z. lost more men per capita than the other Allies in WW II - but cannot verify that one myself.) Few people remember that there were other nations with troops in Vietnam, Korea, etc I guess my point is that America seems to be very inward looking and tends to be distrustful of people from other nations. That's my take on it from Ohio : ) >>> sdalcorn@AVION.COM.AU 02/12/02 09:02PM >>> on 11/2/02 8:32 AM, Paul Holthuizen at holthp@XS4ALL.NL wrote: > That does not strike me as crazy. Australia is a part of the world > nowadays. Nowadays? We were certainly part of the world when we were fighting in Europe! -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.