From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Sun 10 Nov 2002 - 21:26:23 GMT
I didn't know that it had been rebuilt. I too am emotional about these
things... I had the pleasure of spending a couple of days in Mostar a long
time ago, and spent some time on that bridge, watching the river thrash
below, on its way to the sea. I was a kid traveling alone through a region
whose main roads were unpaved. What an extraordinary part of the world! I
had no clue that it was, decades later, to erupt into the cruelty that we
have witnessed. I think from time to time of the friends I made on that
trip, and wonder what happened to them. You are right; all that, and the
bridge, can never truly be rebuilt.
Lawry
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From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
Van oost Kenneth
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 4:05 PM
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Post-Saddam Iraq?
It was shot in pieces during the clashes.
As a peaceful sign between the two comminities they ' rebuilt ' it, maybe in
your
respect it was a good job done, but the original was better.
Maybe they improved it over the years, I can 't tell, but the symbolic value
is
wasted away... It lies ' broken '...
I am an emotional guy...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
> I haven't seen anything on the wonderful bridge in Mostar...what _was_
done
> with/to it?
>
> L
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
> Van oost Kenneth
> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 2:57 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Post-Saddam Iraq?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
> Kenneth,
> At what price will the US succeed this time, South- America, Asia,
> > > Europe or will Bush try to get the funding from his own national
> > > reserves !?
> Joe,
> > The US is wealthy, but not infinitely so. It cannot support the entire
> rest
> > of the world. So, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Back then it was
> > the Axis; these days it is the Greater Middle East. Europe was to aid
> > Africa.
> > BTW: Germany and Japan are grateful for the US Marshall Plan aid
> > that rebuilt their devastated countries; let's hope the US can do as
well
> > in Afghanistan and Iraq.
> > South America receives some US aid, but they are in better condition,
> > and pose less of a terrorist threat, than the Greater Middle East. And
> > the relative wealth and industry of the Pacific Rim nations is quasi-
> > legendary.
>
> I suppose they were, but I don 't think, my personal opinion on that, that
> the US will ever re- built Iraq or Afghanistan !
> Not even far from it !
> The US is already considering the possible negative power- balances in
> the region if either Iraq or Afghanistan is re- built !
> The US is already countin' in the reflex of a re- built would have on its
> own future foreign policy.
> Come on, don 't be naive, what the US does is for its profit...all the
rest
> is wishful thinking from our side of the water.
>
> Europe promised to re- built Yougoslavia, ' we ' never built a bridge !
> Have you seen in what way we re- built Mostar- Bridge !? Shame, shame !!
>
> Kenneth
>
>
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