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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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Excellent find David.
Posted by: Mike H. | June 21, 2004 at 12:00 AM
Saddam soll Geld in Deutschland und Japan angelegt haben
Kairo (dpa) - Der irakische Ex-Präsident Saddam Hussein soll laut der arabischen Zeitung "Al-Hayat" große Geldbeträge bei deutschen und japanischen Banken angelegt haben. Die Zeitung beruft sich auf anonyme "hochrangige" irakische Informanten. Der Ministerpräsident der Übergangsregierung, Ijad Allawi, habe auf Anfrage erklärt, er schätze das von Saddam versteckte Vermögen auf 40 Milliarden US- Dollar.
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Posted by: Gabi | June 21, 2004 at 10:06 AM
Off Topic: David, look at this:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,304551,00.html
seems the Lefties at Spiegel Online become nervous...
Posted by: Hartmut | June 21, 2004 at 10:14 AM
oh yes,
and conservative wackos going nuts
Posted by: ahem | June 21, 2004 at 12:44 PM
Does this Mini-Truck come from the New York Times by chance?
7 Site (!) Report:
U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantánamo Detainees
By TIM GOLDEN and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Some officials are now saying that most of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are not dangerous or in possession of vital intelligence about Al Qaeda.
Tim Golden reported from New York and Washington for this article, and Don Van Natta Jr. from Guantánamo Bay. Reporting was contributed by Carlotta Gall, David Rohde, Lizette Alvarez, Clifford Krauss, Raymond Bonner and Jason Horowitz.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/politics/21GITM.html?hp
Posted by: Downer | June 21, 2004 at 05:29 PM
@Hartmut & all SPIEGEL-haters
"http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,304551,00.html"
You guys should apply! You could write a book afterwards a la Guenter Wallraff's BILD-Hans-Esser books were he becomes a BILD editor and tells all the inside stories about how BILD works. That should be fun. I'm sure, SPIEGEL would love that too.
Posted by: jo | June 21, 2004 at 07:10 PM
If I were the terrorists' media consultant, I'd tell them to
lay off the beheadings for a few weeks while Abu Ghraib dominated
the headlines. Poor "issue management" on their part...
Posted by: Foobarista | June 22, 2004 at 02:49 AM
Deutsche Medien? Huhu, wo seid ihr?!
Iraqis Back New Leaders, Poll Says
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 25, 2004; Page A19
A large majority of Iraqis say they have confidence in the new interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi that is set to assume political power on Wednesday, according to a poll commissioned by U.S. officials in Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3433-2004Jun24.html
Solche Umfragen werden natürlich hier zu Lande nicht veröffentlicht. Könnte ja das quadratisch-praktische Weltbild etwas ins Wanken bringen...
Posted by: Downer | June 25, 2004 at 01:03 PM