>>Kiya does this give you a hint of our news style over here?>>

Yep, it does <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> I prefer German regional TV - they have their reporters nearby - but I read between the lines, too. There are quite a few journalists who have spent many years in the Arab world and written books. BTW the rainbow press over here scolded a lot in the beginning, about Germany isolating itself, disturbing the German/American relations etc. since so many young people are demonstrating daily over here, refusing to go to school - they've changed their tone.

I fear the Vietnam trauma (in the US) could be added by the Iraq trauma... if we all will be informed about all details.

The only thing I can repeat over and over again: Being born somewhere is an accident of birth, nothing else. Developing own virtues, self-responbility, is far more important than being proud/ashamed of having this/that nationality.
Kiya

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