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Originally posted by Donut:
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Originally posted by Aerich:
I kinda feel like that too, Gab, but Righteous Indignation by non-Americans is arguably worth nothing to the people who make the decisions. It's out of your hands, my hands, and the hands of everyone on this forum.
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Fair enough. But given that Tony Blair is the person who takes the decision to send British forces into war we should at least be able to voice our concerns. [/QUOTE]Yep, go ahead, Donut. My intention there was not to say that we SHOULDN'T voice our concerns - it was just to say that we cannot reasonably expect to get anywhere by shouting about them. I've gone past the voicing-of-concerns stage and moved on to the resigned stage. I have to admit, that post was also an attempt to derail the possibility of a flaming reply by a Bush/Iraq war supporter to Gab's strongly-worded post.
Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say that "RI
directed at the American administration by non-Americans is arguably worth nothing to the people who make the decisions
in the American context."
RI by British citizens and members of the EU IS arguably worth something to Blair. Bush has shown little or no signs of concern about what the rest of the world thinks, so the comment was actually aimed at him.