<!--QuoteBegin-redi hoke+Nov 16 2009, 04:41 PM-->QUOTE(redi hoke @ Nov 16 2009, 04:41 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->however this cannot be said for his capicity to think outside a particular country.
[right][snapback]102580[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Easy there. I am far more sympathetic to Europeans and Europe than many (most? all?) others on this forum. As it happens, I think about and worry for Europe <i>quite</i> often in fact. But the sympathy (and <i>what</i> Europe it is for) is not for any reasons that would immediately spring to mind.
Anyway, my earlier response was both for
1. my suspicion that you were just advertising and did not intend to return - a behaviour many others have exhibited,
2. and - in case you were serious - to gently remind you/anyone else who wants to post a similar topic (and it is as *gentle* as I ever get - What, you don't appreciate? <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo-->) that <i>No One Else</i> Here Is Likely To Respond To You in an involved discussion.
I imagine it quite likely that it <i>was</i> going to be either my response or the silent treatment (which some consider to be less friendly). Was essentially trying to tell you that this is not the forum for the kind of topic you wish to discuss. That's not to say we don't wish you well in your endeavours for a better democracy.
<b>Then again</b>, I may be plain wrong, and there could well be some eager members wishing to discuss the very matter you had in mind, and they're just taking their time or haven't got round to checking out your opening post yet. In which case I obviously had no right to presume and speak for them.
[right][snapback]102580[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Easy there. I am far more sympathetic to Europeans and Europe than many (most? all?) others on this forum. As it happens, I think about and worry for Europe <i>quite</i> often in fact. But the sympathy (and <i>what</i> Europe it is for) is not for any reasons that would immediately spring to mind.
Anyway, my earlier response was both for
1. my suspicion that you were just advertising and did not intend to return - a behaviour many others have exhibited,
2. and - in case you were serious - to gently remind you/anyone else who wants to post a similar topic (and it is as *gentle* as I ever get - What, you don't appreciate? <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo-->) that <i>No One Else</i> Here Is Likely To Respond To You in an involved discussion.
I imagine it quite likely that it <i>was</i> going to be either my response or the silent treatment (which some consider to be less friendly). Was essentially trying to tell you that this is not the forum for the kind of topic you wish to discuss. That's not to say we don't wish you well in your endeavours for a better democracy.
<b>Then again</b>, I may be plain wrong, and there could well be some eager members wishing to discuss the very matter you had in mind, and they're just taking their time or haven't got round to checking out your opening post yet. In which case I obviously had no right to presume and speak for them.