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SukuWatalu · 11-14-2007, 01:58 AM

Dear Du Bois,

Some more comments on your first question: "Is this an article from somewhere on the internet?"

It is rude, insulting and annoying bordering on absurdity, with mischievous implication if not allegation.

Another of your mischievous implication is found in your so-called presumption: "Your article assumes that the US is one man: I presume the one person is the President."

As I had said before, I used the term U.S. for the political establishment of the country, as is the usual practice of newspapers. Don't tell me that your countrymen, including you, are foolish enough to elect a Parkinson Disease patient to be their President.

You said: "In any case, the question is not the consistency or inconsistency of US foreign policy but of the homogoneity or mixture of foreign policies advocated by different US public officials. Where your argument fails, is that it treats the US government as one person, when the major actors who determine US foreign policy actually number 536! So 536 people who have different foreign policies is not inconsistent, it is not HOMOGENOUS. "

If "the major actors who determine US foreign policy actually number 536!" as claimed by you, the U.S. might as well set up 536 Departments of State headed by 536 Secretaries of State! And you have the cheeks to claim that "536 people who have different foreign policies is not inconsistent, it is not HOMOGENOUS".

In other words, all other countries must prepare to cope with 536 different foreign policies in its dealing with the U.S. It must also prepare to sign 536 accords in every dealing with the U.S. You have the cheeks to consider 536 foreign policies as one consistent policy. How ridiculous! It sounds like a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights!

11-14-2007, 01:58 AM	#15 (permalink)
SukuWatalu Conscript Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 44	Dear Du Bois, Some more comments on your first question: "Is this an article from somewhere on the internet?" It is rude, insulting and annoying bordering on absurdity, with mischievous implication if not allegation. Another of your mischievous implication is found in your so-called presumption: "Your article assumes that the US is one man: I presume the one person is the President." As I had said before, I used the term U.S. for the political establishment of the country, as is the usual practice of newspapers. Don't tell me that your countrymen, including you, are foolish enough to elect a Parkinson Disease patient to be their President. You said: "In any case, the question is not the consistency or inconsistency of US foreign policy but of the homogoneity or mixture of foreign policies advocated by different US public officials. Where your argument fails, is that it treats the US government as one person, when the major actors who determine US foreign policy actually number 536! So 536 people who have different foreign policies is not inconsistent, it is not HOMOGENOUS. " If "the major actors who determine US foreign policy actually number 536!" as claimed by you, the U.S. might as well set up 536 Departments of State headed by 536 Secretaries of State! And you have the cheeks to claim that "536 people who have different foreign policies is not inconsistent, it is not HOMOGENOUS". In other words, all other countries must prepare to cope with 536 different foreign policies in its dealing with the U.S. It must also prepare to sign 536 accords in every dealing with the U.S. You have the cheeks to consider 536 foreign policies as one consistent policy. How ridiculous! It sounds like a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights!