Re: OT: Calling All Luddites

Miedvied <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:YndIe.470$x43.234151
@twister.nyc.rr.com:

> rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> maff wrote:
>>
>>>Calling All Luddites
>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/opinion/03friedman.html
>>>
>>>http://forums.delphiforums.com/atheistrefuge/messages?msg=1786.8846
>>>By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
>>>The fact that the U.S. has fallen to 16th in the world in broadband
>>>connectivity has aroused little interest, but it should.
>>
>>
>> What with this and that, the twenty-first century really isn't working
>> out too well at all for your country. Suppose you just leave it to
>> Europe and India and China, and step backwards instead... that seems
to
>> be the White House plan, anyway. We'll wake you up in a century... if
>> we remember.
>
> On the one hand, I agree.
>
> On the other, when foreigners open up their mouths like that, I can
> understand why nationalists have the urge to respond with "USA #1!
> WOO!". You invite spiteful rhetoric.
>

Somalia #1! GO MOGADISHU GO!

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