<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Punki:
I haven't read all of the threads in question, but I have met Goldlust in real life and he is a delightful young man.
The thing that most amazed me when I met him was the fact that, while his English sounds fluent and amazingly complete, it is for him a school room and only occasionally practiced-in-real-life-language, obviously enhanced by a great deal of reading, listening and study. I am so jealous, jealous, jealous of his tremendous skill and talent, and very aware of how very difficult it must to to discern nuances in a foreign language.
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This is
not the issue, IMHO. The position being taken was that the U.S. brought this attack upon itself through it's support for Israel. To many of us who lost friends in the 9/11 attacks this theory was both wrong-headed and scandalously unfounded.
I am certainly willing to forgive and forget, but, IMHO, to chalk these comments up to a language barrier is not credible. These were not "nuances" and many cautions were offered that a line was being crossed.
Just one man's opinion.