Agreed. We will be some time, if not forever, in overcoming America's current image. What I hate is instead of respectfully correcting the President on his pronunciation of "nukular", his underlings along with teeming swarms of journalists fell into lockstep in mis-pronouncing it, so as not to rock the boat. I don't think this is respect, it's cowardice and a negative sort of conformity that does further harm to our language than has already been done by American dialects and slang.
One of the problems that arises when a country starts a war by "building a case", instead of hitting when the time is right(for instance, when Hussein was in the act of gassing Kurds), is that from now on, we cannot wage a just war without being defaulted to the bad guy to the world. No one will even believe good reasons when we have them because of the shaky ground that the Iraq war premise stands on.
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Date: 2007-04-09 05:49 pm (UTC)What I hate is instead of respectfully correcting the President on his pronunciation of "nukular", his underlings along with teeming swarms of journalists fell into lockstep in mis-pronouncing it, so as not to rock the boat. I don't think this is respect, it's cowardice and a negative sort of conformity that does further harm to our language than has already been done by American dialects and slang.
One of the problems that arises when a country starts a war by "building a case", instead of hitting when the time is right(for instance, when Hussein was in the act of gassing Kurds), is that from now on, we cannot wage a just war without being defaulted to the bad guy to the world. No one will even believe good reasons when we have them because of the shaky ground that the Iraq war premise stands on.