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- "In much of Europe's public debate, the true meaning of human rights has degenerated into a tool that gives anti-Americanism an aura of legitimacy. The real, horrendous human-rights violations in the Middle East, North Korea, China, Cuba, etc., are largely ignored or relegated to news blurs on the back pages. For front-page coverage, you need an American angle." ---The Wall Street Journal
- "I discovered that European social democracy, too, was a kind of fundamentalism, rigid and doctrinaire, yielding what Swedish writer Johan Norberg calls "one-idea states"—nations where an echo chamber of insular elites calls the shots, where monochrome media daily reiterate statist mantras and shut out contrarian views, and where teachers and professors systematically misrepresent the U.S. (millions of Europeans believe that free public schools, unemployment insurance, and pensions are unknown in America). The more I saw of the European elites' chronic distrust of the public, and the public's habitual deference to those elites, the fonder I grew of the nasty, ridiculous rough-and-tumble of American democracy..." ---Bruce Bawer
- "In the European media as well as on the public stage, prizes and publicity go overwhelmingly to Americans who serve as witnesses against their own government and nation. (...) The defense mechanism is simple enough: "After all, they are saying this, too, so how can we be accused of anti-Americanism?" A similar phenomenon attaches itself to Israel, where "post-" or anti-Zionist spokesmen are given top billing in the European media." ---Josef Joffe
- "The point is to be aware that for many of the foreigners issuing what they claim to be "simply constructive criticism", the evidence shows that criticizing America is all they do, criticizing America is all they ever have done, and criticizing America is all they ever will do." ---Erik Svane, Americans Anonymous
- "To get an impression, take a look at David's Medienkritik, a Web log in English dedicated, among other things, to exposing biased reporting on the United States in the German media. Be it stories about the war in Iraq, the conduct of U.S. soldiers abroad, American reservations regarding the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court or even the Katrina disaster, more often than not the German public is presented with a distorted picture. There are laudable exceptions. But generally the blows are low, and the public is left to form its opinion base on half-truths and false analyses." ---Julian Knapp
- "Negative sentiments and views have been driven not only - or even primarily - by what the United States does, but rather by an animus against what Europeans have believed that America is. While the politics, style, and discourse of the Bush terms - and of President Bush as a person - have undoubtedly exacerbated anti-American sentiment among Europeans and fostered a heretofore unmatched degree of unity between elite and mass opinion in Europe, they are not anti-Americanism's cause. Indeed, a change to a center-left administration in Washington, led by a Democratic president, would not bring about its abatement, let alone its disappearance." ---Andrei Markovits
- "Anti-Americanism is hypocrisy at its finest. You can spend your evening catching the latest episode of "24" and then complain about Guantanamo the next morning. You can claim that the Americans have themselves to blame for terrorism, while at the same time calling for tougher restrictions on Muslim immigration to Germany. You can call the American president a mass murderer and book a flight to New York the next day. You can lament the average American's supposed lack of culture and savvy and meanwhile send off for the documents for the Green Card lottery. Not a day passes in Germany when someone isn't making the wildest claims, hurling the vilest insults or spreading the most outlandish conspiracy theories about the United States. But there's no risk involved and it all serves mainly to boost the German feeling of self-righteousness." ---C.C. Malzahn
- "The protests against nuclear weapons, for instance, concentrated on American weapons. The anti-war rallies were against American-led wars. The anti death penalty campaign focused on Texas. A pattern was emerging and has never seriously been altered. A pattern of willingness to condemn America for the tiniest indiscretion - or to magnify those indiscretions - while leaving the murderers, dictators, and thieves who run other nations oddly untouched." ---Justin Webb
- The fundamental role of anti-Americanism in Europe in general, and particularly among those on the Left, is to absolve themselves of their own moral failings and intellectual errors by heaping them onto the monster scapegoat, the United States of America. For stupidity and bloodshed to vanish from Europe, the U.S. must be identified as the singular threat to democracy (contrary to every lesson of actual history)." ---Jean-François Revel
- "In five years there will be a different President and Iraq will likely be pacified. That would naturally have impacts on the strength of the resentments that have fixed themselves onto certain individuals in the present situation. But beneath the surface smolder the long-burning embers of latent anti-Americanism. It has a long tradition and will remain, also when President Bush is no longer in office and Palestine is peaceful." ---Lutz Erbring
- "A writer for the German weekly Der Spiegel told me during the Iraq debate not to take offense at the crude anti-American covers of the magazine such as the ugly, bearded, drooling Rambo figure it used to show the typical GI in Iraq. 'We're just trying to please our million readers,' he explained." ---Jeff Gedmin
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Übrigens gibt es, wie ich vorhin las, seit drei Tagen gewalttätige Proteste gegen die französischen Besatzungstruppen (die ja im peacekeeping und nation building ein solch strahlendes Vorbild sein sollen) in der Elfenbeinküste und es werden Befürchtungen laut, daß das Land (weltgrößter Kakaoproduzent - kein Blut für Kakao!) im Chaos zu versinken droht. Was man bisher allerdings soweit ich das sehe leider nur bei CNN erfährt, während Spiegel Online lieber mal wieder US-Panzer auf harmlose Zivlisten zurollen und US-Wissenschaftler im eigenen Land verfolgt werden läßt...
Und bei der taz hat man scheinbar inzwischen (zurecht) Magenschmerzen wegen des Vietnam-Vergleichs und prognostiziert dem Irak stattdessen nun das Schicksal des Kongo in den 60er Jahren und danach...
Posted by: Thomas | December 03, 2003 at 04:56 PM
Am nächsten Tag die Schlagzeile in Tsai Tung: Lang Fing Fang haben gemacht Ku Gel in Dieb :-)
Und was hat Ihr Bekannter gesagt?
Posted by: tictoc | December 04, 2003 at 02:55 AM
Ich fasse es nicht:
In einer Diskussion mit Studenten im südchinesischen Kanton ging Schröder auf die Taiwan-Frage ein. Er verstehe den Standpunkt Chinas in dieser Frage nicht nur, sondern er teile ihn auch, sagte der Kanzler. "Ich glaube, dass China ein Land ist und bleiben muss." Politische Vernunft werde verhindern, dass Taiwan sich abspalte. China habe sich immer für die Einheit Deutschlands eingesetzt. "Es ist selbstverständlich, dass wir es auch tun." Deutschland verfolge eine strikte "Ein-China-Politik", sage Schröder und fügte hinzu: "Das wird auch so bleiben."
Wenn es sich freilich um Deutschland dreht, dann heisst es:
Die "DDR" sei ein Staat, sie habe ein Territorium, auf dem Territorium wohnen Menschen, also habe sie auch ein Staatsvolk, und als Folge dessen habe sie auch eine Staatsbürgerschaft. Dies sei in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu respektieren. Eine solche Haltung ermögliche auch eine positive Entwicklung der Beziehungen zur "DDR".
Posted by: So 'nen Wichser | December 04, 2003 at 04:43 AM
Keiner hat eine weisse Weste, wenn es um China geht.
Die Politik der Bush-Regierung ist Fortsetzung der Clinton-Politik, nämlich China von der Globalisierung des Welthandels profitieren zu lassen und darauf zu hoffen, dass eine wachsende Mittelschicht in China für sich mehr Freiheit und Rechte reklamiert. Die Tibeter können sehen, wo sie bleiben.
Anders geht es wohl leider nicht.
Allerdings, sich so schamlos in Bezug auf Taiwan an die kommunistischen Diktatoren ranzuschmeissen wie Schröder, das musste nicht sein, aber von Schröder war auch nichts anderes zu erwarten.
Posted by: tictoc | December 04, 2003 at 09:46 AM
Schröder ist sogar konsequent, was die Wiedervereinigungsfrage angeht. Er ist naemlich nur gegen eine Wiedervereinigung --- in Deutschland oder China --- wenn sie unter demokratischem Vorzeichen steht. Gegen "Wiedervereinigungen" unter kommunistischen Vorzeichen haette Genosse Schröder vermutlich auch in Deutschland nichts einzuwenden gehabt. Na, und Maoist Trittin ja ohnehin nicht.
Posted by: Schröder konsequent | December 04, 2003 at 08:11 PM