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[atlarge-discuss] Columbia, Iraq, DNS
Some in here accused me of "Anti-Americanism". This American editorialist
(named Dick Gordon) says all in this text (he was speaking of Columbia):
<quote>
Four days later, Wednesday, Secretary of State Colin Powell gave his
powerful speech to the United Nations. (You don't have to agree with his
conclusions to admit it was a powerful speech.) People around the world
watched and listened. I'm guessing that many of them wanted to be persuaded
that war with Iraq is a rational option. Some may have been convinced and
others not. Some never will be. My point is that the deep feelings people
hold over the loss of the Columbia are hard-wired into the same mental
circuitry with which they watched Powell. It's a tangle of trust and
admiration and curiosity and skepticism and cynicism that some commentators
in this country interpret as anti-Americanism.
They're wrong. It's not anti-Americanism. I've lived most of my life
outside the US, and it's a pretty basic observation that people everywhere
want to know that their views count, even on issues such as this one. I
think that the global sense of loss that people share over the Columbia and
their desire to be included in difficult global decisions like what to do
in Iraq are inseparable. Not unreasonable, when you think that we all have
a stake in what NASA calls this "tiny blue marble in the cosmos".
</quote>
IMHO Columbia, Iraq, DNS make a graduation in importance. Because of the
DNS impact on everyone life for decades, orientation of the users habits
and therefore culture and education, etc. it is the source or the patch of
multiple digital divides and the help or the limitation to innovation.
As Jeff puts it in another mail: cyberspace is not the 51st US State (nor
AmerICANN its administration agency, even if 47 USC 230 (f)(1) may be read
this way). Again I prefer "We ICANN" even it it was said by Mike Roberts.
jfc
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