What you said was a deliberately provocative short-cut of the kind that doesn't produce dialogue. And it can be seen as flame-baiting, troll-baiting, trouble-making - I don't care what it's called, but please stop it.
I've no more time to waste on your disruptive behaviour.
Two reasons - to me he is a hypocrit and war criminal. Hope that is not hyperbol - at least it doesn't feel like to me. :-)
Hope that is not hyperbol - at least it doesn't feel like to me. :-)
A half-serious, half-playful response to a half serious comment. I didn't realize that ET was just an anti-Blair mosh pit, with no sense of humor at all regarding European politics.
The EU pretends to be a post-Enlightenment project, and you insist on saying it's an ancien régime project.
Ironically, Chomsky examines these very narratives --"post-Enlightment" and "ancien régime"-- in Hegemony or Survival (of Yurp and the USA since, oh, 1900). I happen to be in my first reading of it at the moment.
Next is Dallek's Nixon and Kissinger. hehehe. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
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Such ratings should never be used to indicate that you disagree with the comment.
Thank you.
It simply never occurred to me that anyone here is actually embarrassed by those episodes of European history, instead of animated by it.
hilarious...
charlemange sounds like a dog's skin infection.
oh, yes, animated is exactly the word one might use to describe reacting to the mercenary, bloodthirsty, creepily underhanded, morally reprehensible machinations of the vatican through european history. 'embarrassed' is very mild... may i suggest 'totally disgusted' as more appropriate?
very droll, you wag, you! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
