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On 04/06/2006, at 1:32 AM, Bob Guevara wrote:

> I have no problem with a balanced discussion about terrorism ,, in
> fact, I have no problem with a view to terrorism thru the lense of
> anti-Americanism such as is obviously yours.

So you are accusing me of anti-Americanism now? What is anti-
Americanism? I’m an Aussie and grew up with Sesame Street and knowing
as much about US history as Australian. My society is about as
“Americanised” as any on the planet, the North Americans I’ve met
have been cool people, I don’t hate the US as a national entity and I
devour a good deal of its cultural exports, and what about you,
you’re Canadian aren’t you BobG?

This is the way most polemics seem to work on many of the online
forums I’ve been to, and in many cases it seems people just can’t
help themselves. Any discussion of the current war on terror that
deviates from a generalized conservative US approach gets denounced
as anti-semitism, anti-Zionism and/or anti-Americanism. It’s the
basest form of polarising debating technique and an accusation that I
will certainly take you up on if you care to put your words where
your mouth is.

But can you really not respond in any other way than dissemblance and
baiting to the proposition that the US war in Iraq is state
terrorism? There are plenty of Americans on the internet today who do
not resile from asking very hard questions about the war and its
future, they seem to me to be mostly patriotic citizens, are they
anti-Americans too from your North American perspective? In fact does
anyone who questions your own everyday assumptions about your middle
class world immediately become “anti-American” to you?

I’d certainly be interested in your responses to these questions BobG.

Cheers,

Malcolm

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Dr Malcolm Riddoch
Electronic Arts
School of Communications and Contemporary Arts
Faculty of Communications and Creative Industries
Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley
Perth Western Australia
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Posted on Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 at 6:05 pm
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