On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:58:52 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 5:50:30 AM UTC-10, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:43:00 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >In article >, graham > wrote:
>> >
>> >> "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its
>> >> way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion
>> >> that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your
>> >> knowledge.'" -- Isaac Asimov
>> >
>> >I loved Mr. Asimov. I read damned everything he ever wrote including
>> >his scientific explanations. But I'm going to change the quote above.
>> >
>> >The strain of intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its
>> >way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false
>> >notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your
>> >ignorance, but I have a PhD in communist nonsense. -- leo
>> >
>> >See what I did there? Why the hell are you and others foreign to the
>> >United States interested in us at all? I don't even know the name of
>> >your Prime Ministers, although one possibly authors the cartoon
>> >"Doonesbury".
>> >
>> >leo
>>
>> your last paragraph says everything
>> Janet US
>
>He has a point. It's bad form for disinterested parties to go on about another country's business. OTOH, the president has pretty much raised the bar on bad form. So you got that happening...

no, no point. When the US rattles sabres it affects everyone. That
is not conceit, simply common sense. Any smart person from the US is
going to be concerned about foreign policy as should everyone across
the globe. Enemies don't just lob cannon balls at each other anymore.
All we need are a couple of clueless hotheads in charge of a couple of
governments and we will all be engaged one way or another. It's time
to realize that we are essentially one global economy and one
population sitting on top of this ball we call earth.
Janet US