https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo In international affairs, he supported U.S. President George W. Bush <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush>'s 2001 invasion of Afghanistan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan>, his 2003 invasion of Iraq <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq> and his re-election <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004>. [40] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-nytdeath-40>[41] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-41>[42] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-42>[43] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-pen-43>
In his 2004 article titled "Victory to the Anglo-American Freedom Alliance", he praised the U.S.-led post-Cold War <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War> conflicts as "best examples of how war should be conducted in a modern civilization." He wrote "regardless of the savagery of the terrorists, and regardless of the instability of Iraq's situation, and, what's more, regardless of how patriotic youth might despise proponents of the United States such as myself, my support for the invasion of Iraq will not waver. Just as, from the beginning, I believed that the military intervention of Britain and the United States would be victorious, I am still full of belief in the final victory of the Freedom Alliance and the democratic future of Iraq, and even if the armed forces of Britan and the United States should encounter some obstacles such as those that they are curently facing, this belief of mine will not change." He predicted "a free, democratic and peaceful Iraq will emerge."[44] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-pen2-44> During the 2004 US presidential election, Liu again praised Bush for his war effort against Iraq and condemned Democratic Party candidate John Kerry <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry> for not sufficiently supporting the wars in which the U.S. was then involved. He commented on Islamism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism> that, "a culture and (religious) system that produced this kind of threat (Islamic fundamentalism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism>), must be extremely intolerant and blood-thirsty." However, he also criticized the Iraq prison abuse scandals <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_prison_abuse_scandals>.[45] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-45> On Israel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel>, he said "without America's protection, the long persecuted Jews who faced extermination during World War II <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II>, probably would again be drowned by the Islamic world's hatred." He has defended U.S. policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict>, which he thinks is the fault of the "provocateur" Palestinians.[46] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-guardian20101215-46>[43] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-pen-43>
