> About supporting regimes in the past that are now > enemies - lots of people in Europe and around the world supported Hitler, > too,
support is not the right word. But yes, something could have been done about him beforee the war. It had to do with anti semitism. > or looked the other way in the beginning, until they saw the light. Like the USA did. > > > > The anti American sentiment is widespread and it is real and it is there > for > > good reasons. Stating this fact is not an attack on you personally or > anyone > > else, except those people that have the power in your country. The UK too > has > > equally stained hands. > > The UK or former British Empire controlled a lot of the Middle East and set > up a lot of the countries where there are problems today. They , the UK, certainly helped create the Palestine problem. They gave in to terrorists. > However, do the > Americans rant and rave about this and put it all on them to this day? I > find a lot of the anti-American sentiment in the U.K. and Europe just > mindboggling. As if they can just ignore the fact that it is their national > corporations that are some of the most largest and powerful in the U.S. The > biggest oil corporations in the U.S. are not named "Bush" but rather British > Petroleum and (Dutch) Shell Oil Company. Most of the major record companies > are foreign-owned. The German and British have the lock on the luxury car > market in the U.S. The largest pharmaceutical company is German and several > of the largest scientific concerns are also German. I heard at one time > that the largest personal landholder in the U.S. is Queen Elizabeth. Yet > their newspapers and citizens spit in our faces and we are suppose to be > intellectually above it all and demur cooperatively. I really don't see what the above has to with anything we are discussing. we are discussing the USA interfering with foreign powers, supporting terrorists when it suits them, supporting dictators when it suits them toppling othjer countries govts when it suits them etc etc etc and then wondering why they piss people off in these countries!
