To Luigi - tut, tut jumping to conclusions again!

Submitted by Isis (Australia), Dec 16, 2008 at 21:52

Re "I thought you would know since you supposedly travel to Egypt for long periods to do business? Must not be THAT bad there if your employer sees some kind of a market there? Hm, interesting contradiction there."

You thought wrong Luigi once again - the business is MY business and also none of your business. Your talent for presumption has failed you yet again. There is NO contradiction here.

... This is what debate is all about Luigi - 2 different sides of the coin. Until you have had the above listed experiences, please refrain from satisfying only your anger and bitterness towards the world. Experience is what counts and from where I sit you have had none other than a sad experience with a woman you met on My Space.

Re your employment - it seems to me that you change your profession to suit the site you are on as well as the race of your friends. Funnily enough if you use the same pseudonym "Google" will find you easliy enough. Miraculously, you now have friends who live in Morocco. I and others will find this hard to believe because it is obvious that you have had no physical experience in any middle east country.

I suggest that whilst you are studying you should also study the science of debating as it will change your whole perception and the application of the subject.

Re bribing in Morocco - this is a far fetched accusation by you Luigi. These people are poor and the Government is poor and there is no room in their meagre budgets to bribe their citizens. Yep - the local bus driver in Casablanca probably will tell Broken Heart what he thinks of Americans and so will the Egyptian bus drivers in Sharm - nothing new here. Their comments are not aimed generally at Westerners but specifically at Americans - and I am NOT American.

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