That's antidotal. I believe this notion that Bush caused anti-Americanism is naive.
Read: Anti-Americanism Is Mostly Hype - David Gothard http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121417762529095457.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Here's a blurb. .... You would not know from these surveys, of course, that anti-Americanism runs deep in the French intellectual scene, and that French thought about the great power across the Atlantic has long been a jumble of envy and condescension. In the fabled years of the Clinton presidency, long before Guantanamo, the torture narrative and the war in Iraq, American pension funds were, in the French telling, raiding their assets, bringing to their homeland dreaded Anglo-Saxon economics, and the merciless winds of mondialisation (globalization). > I've been talking with friends and relatives in throughout Canada. > Most of them have been generally pro American. Not any more. Many of > them use the same phrasing as was used with the Soviets 25 years ago. > Most think that the US is the problem now, and is a major threat to > world peace. Several of them have stated outright that the US is not > to be trusted to uphold its obligations. A couple of them said that > the US will only honour treaties only if it suits it, and it ignores > the rule of law. > > The sad part of it is that these people are generally towards the more > conservative end of Canadian politics. If they think this way, you can > imagine what the rest of the country thinks. And Canada is probably > the closest of the US allies. > > > indeed. nothing good comes from this sort of thing. > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Larry wrote: > > > You mean like how the US has interferred with local elections in > > Canada, and in Europe, simply because the left leaning socialist > > parties were ascendant, or were supporting universal health care. > How > > about the American support of death squads throughout central and > > south america. Yes those people do give a damn what the US thinks. > > Directly and indirectly the US has been responsible for a lot of > > carnage in its interests. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264345 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
