Sunday, June 11, 2006

The new sport, congratulations americans, you're all 'Juden'

From Commentary (sub may be reqired)

attitudes toward Americans are not necessarily linked to specific actions that the United States takes. Nearly 80 percent of Indonesians, for example, approved of the U.S. disaster-relief operation in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami in 2004. Yet anti-Americanism in Indonesia actually grew during the same period.

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Here is something worth reading.

So why are we disliked? Here is one plausible reason...

The mere fact of American power, combined with a readiness to use it in defense of American interests, seems enough to damn the United States in the eyes of many. Even when American power is deployed for their benefit, the gesture is either reinterpreted as malign in intent or is somehow disconnected from the dominant paradigm of American omnipotence and malevolence.

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