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Skriven 2011-04-19 09:04:28 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Names will never hurt me...
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Hello Robert,

On Monday April 11 2011 11:18, you wrote to me:

 MV>> We know now that it isn't so. The Russians were no more of a
 MV>> threat than Saddam Hussien's WMDs. We just were made to believe
 MV>> it...

 RB> Let me guess: by the "evil"

The  "evil" is your connotation....

 RB> Americans who just wanted to take over your country... and could have
 RB> done just that immediately after the war, had they desired to.

Taking over the country is EXACTLY what they did after the Germans surrendered.
Ok, they gave it back after a week or so, but during a short time, The
Netherlands WAS US occupied territory.

Regarding the make believe that the Russians were a threat that needed to be
warded of: it wasn't the French or the British. And it certainly wasn't the
Russians.

Yes, of course it was the US that fed the myth that the the Russians would
invade all of Europe if nothing was done. Maybe they believed it themselves.
Apparently many in the US still believe it, just like many people in the US
still believe Saddam Hussein had WMD's.

Fact is that it wasn't so and you can not blame us for being pretty pissed off,
when we found out we had been mislead all that time by what we thought was our
most trusted alley.

The cold war was a totally unnecessary and dangerous adventure and it was
started by the US.

 MV>> I have already comment on the economic angle in a previous
 MV>> message.

 RB> Yes, but I wonder at your lack of reality. Have you ever lived in a
 RB> town with a foreign military base and seen what happens when it
 RB> closes?

Are you actually reading my messages or do you just pick the parts that confirm
your model of reality?

Haven't I told you that I have lived within a 10 km radius os a large US Air
Force base for the better part of my life? That I have been there several times
and seen with my own eyes that it was a de facto US enclave?

Yes, I saw what happened when it closed. Regarding the local economy: noting
much. The noise of the jet engines disappeared and the prices of the few houses
directly in the line of the main runway went up to normal level. For the rest
business as usual.

Cheers, Michiel

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