As a matter of curiosity, why the deep animus, one which you so rarely show towards others?
Being a landed aristocrat and son of a diplomat account for the privileges that make for an easy erudition, perhaps for a 'magisterial view' of things. And while it may account to some degree for political tendencies, there isn't a necessity there -- except to the crudest materialists, which you aren't.
Hence the query.
But in any case, I think Anderson does a service in drawing out the similarity of assumptions for many, and in his concluding bits -- which will likely draw charges of "soft on Saddam" from some on this list.
Still, I hope he has underestimated the Euro-American multitudes in suggesting that the difference in style is what accounts for the difference in response. I would like to think that somewhere, somehow, something tripped, and people decided that enough is enough and are drawing their line.
For those into Saddam-Hitler analogies, perhaps somewhere the trip was an expansionistic Germany-expansionistic US analogy. Which actually works a whole lot better than the Saddam-Hitler analogy.
kj