Blame Iceland | Washington Post

"Blame Iceland/

Posted by W.P: Sunday, December 3, 2006; Page B06

"A tiny country that still hunts whales scuttles an effort to save the ocean bottom.

IN A FORM of fishing known as bottom trawling, huge, weighted nets are dragged across the ocean floor, destroying corals and just about everything else in their path. In U.S. waters, the practice is tightly regulated -- and forbidden in certain environmentally sensitive areas. On much of the high seas, however, it's open season. Delicate ecosystems get ravaged with nobody paying attention. The Bush administration, along with several other governments, has been pushing for a moratorium on unregulated trawling on the high seas. Last month, thanks in large part to Iceland, it failed to get that measure..." (Click to read article)

This is an article posted on the Washington Post wepage. But many negative comments from the public have been posted to it.

My Comment, on his negative approach to Iceland, is this one:

"Come to your sences, please! Dear W.P journalist. I expect, by reading your article, that you do not know much about those you are criticizing. And as well, I expect that you do not realise much about your own country. I hope you will feel better about your criticism, when I inform you little about Iceland. A country that has more then 1000 years of democracy and more than 1000 years of literary tradition, with the lowest rate in crime, with one of the highest rates improving women rights (and selected the first woman president in the world), with a law that fully supports gay rights, that descovered North-America (Leifur Eiriksson) - and, notice, that has no army. Furthermore a country, with such power as you describe, even though it is as tiny as you say! Being small does not tell that one can´t make changes. Anyhow, we are proud of being a tiny country. Because people from tiny countries are used to learn a lot about other parts of the world.
Andres Jakob Gudjonsson, Icelandic student in International Communications at the American University of Paris."