[HOE] Good, Evil, And The American Way

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<< read "Rogue State" by William Blum and you will get a fairly good Idea why 
 sentiments such as these can be offensive to some people.
 This is not yank Bashing. But I found myself offended by these 
 statements and their implications.
 Reuben McCallum >>

The statements and implications are, unfortunately, true. And, I bet most of 
people on this list really don't know what we're discussing.  I bet most the 
people on the list saw Independence Day or U571 and it never occurred to them 
the inherent flag waving and inaccuracy (to say the least) of the films.  

My Challenge to you, Mr McCallum, is to bring more internationalism to HoE.  
But right now, and for a while, it's formed based on the legends of American 
West and American ideals.  And sadly, these legends DO ignore the rest of the 
world as insignificant. 

Now I would really like to see some conjecture about what things are like in 
the rest of the world (The SAS are legendary in Britain, are they legendary 
enough to earn Arcane Background? Are the Nazi's back!?  All dead and meaner 
than ever?  Dadaism, HoE style?  A good post-apocalyptic model would be 
Europe after the Black Plague.  Or after the Fall of the Roman Empire.  This 
would lend a very different flavour than having things based on the untamed 
American West).  

Dusarat@aol.com  if you don't think the rest of the list would like to hear 
it.