From rosivach@FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU Sat Sep 22 18:17:05 2001 Received: from mxu101.u.washington.edu (mxu101.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with ESMTP id f8N1H4N120324 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:17:04 -0700 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by mxu101.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f8N1H4730610 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:17:04 -0700 Received: FROM fair1.fairfield.edu BY mxu1.u.washington.edu ; Sat Sep 22 18:17:03 2001 -0700 Received: from webmail.fairfield.edu ([192.160.243.11]) by FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU (PMDF V5.2-32 #37635) with ESMTP id <01K8NH68PC760021L6@FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU> for classics@u.washington.edu; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:19:42 EDT Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 20:43:02 -0400 From: rosivach Subject: RE: Ignorance or arrogance? Sender: rosivach To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-id: <3B83090B@webmail.fairfield.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.51.06 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-WebMail-UserID: rosivach X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002778 My comment referred to the crudity of Ms. Hamel's remark. Those who know me know that I do not have to be lectured on Canada's virtues. Those who don't should read more carefully and not jump to conclusions. Vince Rosivach (who is twenty-one years older than the Republic of Cyprus) >===== Original Message From classics@u.washington.edu ===== >At 02:17 PM 22/09/2001 -0400, you wrote: >> Talk about >> ignorance! > >Actually, the real ignorance is on VT's part, since he obviously doesn't >realize that it was Canadians who, probably for longer than VT has been >alive, who kept the Greeks and Turks from killing each other on Cyprus. It >was a Canadian who came up with the idea of UN Peacekeepers in the first >place (I won't get into how years of decreased spending by successive >governments have even taken this role away from Canada -- Canada left >Cyprus in the early 1990's). I kinda think the world *should* be interested >in *any* kind of influence Canada might have on this. > > >================================================================ >David Meadows Libertas inaestimabilis res est. >================================================================ .