You know, I read that sentence several times, until it soaked in...
You're right, of course. We all live on hope, don't we. We have to!
We want better for our grandchildren and their world.
We didn't do too well with ours, yet we harbor many fine wishes for not just our own, but a better union of peoples, the world around.
We have to take it as it comes.
I was expressing an opinion, based on what little I've experienced in my lifetime.
No, I'm not especially a pessimist. But, I have seen (too many reports of) a lot of nasty people out there, killing their own, over the last 75 years. That's the worst of all!
I'm genuinely saddened by it all. The optimism fades at the onslaught...
But, again, you're right. If not "we," then whom?
Good luck and hard work for all of us,
keith whaley
Bob W wrote:
Hi,
Keith had said:
The E.U. is a forced (yes, it really is!) consolidation of vastly dissimilar peoples, and those very different attitudes will eventually
rust out the bottom of the entire melting pot...
You're trying to put folks together who have histories going back a thousand years! People whose memories are incredibly long, and a large
number of which absolutely cannot and _will_ not forget a slight (a national disrespect) , let alone actual wars and such.
We want the EU to work precisely because we have long memories.
Bob
