[lbo-talk] CFR fellow on why they hate us

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 8/15/06, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> >
> >Los Angeles Times - August 15, 2006
> >
> >Why They Hate Us
> >No, it's not our freedoms. Anti-Americanism isn't going away until  the
> >U.S. puts some fairness in its foreign policy.
> >By Julia E. Sweig
> >
> >AMERICA'S MORAL standing in the world has precipitously declined  since
> >2001. ...
> >Nevertheless, the ideal of the United States as a beacon of justice,
> >democracy, freedom and human rights still garners grudging respect  abroad.
> >...
>
> Gee, how much cognitive dissonance can Sweig pack in a column?  I see plenty
> of evidence cited here for "why they hate us," but I see nothing to support
> her conclusion that the US is a "beacon" that "still garners grudging
> respect abroad."  Where's the locus of that grudging respect, 10 Downing
> Street?

That, and Tokyo*, and exiles from myriad nations who can't pull off
"regime changes" on their own in their homelands**.

* Have you started boycotting Japan yet?

** Let's call them the Chalabi tribe.
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