bush has cause US, AMERICANS to feel anti-american at times. i dont have to look elsewhere, ive felt it inside my body.
thanks tho sam, great try. -- tony Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -- siddhartha gautama On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:53 PM, sam morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:264346 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
