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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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@Amihasser,
Du bist sicher der enkelsohn Joseph Goebbels. Ist es ein bischen unangenehm in die hitze des sommers deine schwarze stiefel und bomberjacke zu tragen?
Den Amis sind nicht schuldig das du kein job hast.
Den Amis sind nicht schuldig, das du keine Freundin hast.
Du warst sicher nie in den USA und kennst persoehnlich kein Amerikaner.
Du hasst sicher auch Juden, Turken, und andere Leute aber es macht dir verueckt das die Amis sind zu stark in deinen geplannten KZ lager zu stellen.
Gott sei dank weisst jeder das solche leute wie dir sprechen nicht fuer Deutschland.
Posted by: hector | July 05, 2004 at 08:37 AM
@amihasser
Gäähhhnn, was passiert? 'mal wieder gedankliche Fäkalien abgeladen?
Armer, bedauernswerter Wicht
Posted by: ralf | July 05, 2004 at 08:43 AM
@ amihasser: I am quite happy that your simple mind obviously never got any decent schooling and hence is not able to communicate your "thoughts" in any other language than bad German.
@ David: you have my fullest understanding and sympathy for drowning in too much work. Don't find much time myself for reading and commenting at least a little bit on your blog with Pato or James (haven't heard from Niko for quite a while, still mad at me? ;-) )so I appreciate all the more your efforts and time for keeping thishere blog running. Thanks for that!
Btw: gave your blog adress together with tall-glas of milk, wizbang and watcher of weasels to two German professors of political science (both specialist for American politics and both rather conservative minds!). Might well be that soon they themselfes or some of their students will start to monitor your blog for some scientific research on new lines of political communication etc.......... Should be cool, don't you think?
Note from David: Thanks for the kind words and the support, Pat. Re Amihasser: don't bother to react to him. His comments are regularly deleted. He's small change.
Posted by: Pat | July 05, 2004 at 10:08 AM
Niko
Did my mail answer your question on research and education funding?
Joe
Posted by: Joe | July 05, 2004 at 07:15 PM
Niko
I found the reply I sent to you. I deleted your email address per your request. I would be happy to sent it to you again if you will just tell me where.
Joe
Posted by: Joe | July 06, 2004 at 04:18 AM
Schäuble gegen ständigen deutschen Sitz im UN-Sicherheitsrat
Berlin (dpa) - Unions-Fraktionsvize Wolfgang Schäuble hat das Streben der Bundesregierung nach einem ständigen Sitz im Weltsicherheitsrat als «rückwärts gewandt» kritisiert. Er halte das für einen Ausdruck alten Denkens», sagte der CDU-Außenpolitiker der dpa. Die Zukunft müsse in einem europäischen Sitz im Weltsicherheitsrat liegen und nicht in einem nationalen Sitz. Deutschland scheidet Ende des Jahres als nicht-ständiges Mitglied turnusgemäß wieder aus.
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Ich stimme dem zu. Warum sollten die USA, Rußland und China einem deutschen Sitz zustimmen neben UK und F? Mit 3 Stimmen aus der EU wäre Europa überrepräsentiert. Warum sollten die anderen dem zustimmen? Oder?
Posted by: Gabi | July 06, 2004 at 01:34 PM
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/cover.html
hier
A Guide to the Arab-Israeli conflict
Posted by: Gabi | July 06, 2004 at 01:51 PM
"Wir geloben dem irakischen Volk und der Welt, dass wir den Widerstand gegen Unterdrückung und Besatzung bis zum letzten Blutstropfen fortsetzen werden", hieß es in dem Schriftstück. Al Sadr bezeichnete darin die Regierung von Ministerpräsident Ijad Allawi als "illegitim" und "illegal" und forderte die "völlige Souveränität und Unabhängigkeit mittels ehrlicher Wahlen". Er schloss eine Auflösung seiner Miliz, der "Mahdi-Armee" aus.
http://www.welt.de/data/2004/07/06/301248.html
Al Sadr braucht immer einige Wochen, bis er die europäischen Medien ausgewertet hat.
Posted by: Gabi | July 06, 2004 at 01:53 PM
I too believe that a common EU-seat as permanent member in the UN-SC would be the right thing...... but I can not see any chance that FRance and UK will be giving up their special post-WWII-position in this UN-body. Besides: one of the things to be changed first is the veto-power for some nations in the SC. This is a major hindrance for any positive development of the SC.
Cheerio from OLD Europe
Posted by: Pat | July 07, 2004 at 09:19 AM
@pat
"...one of the things to be changed first is the veto-power for some nations in the SC. This is a major hindrance for any positive development of the SC."
I would begin by revoking France's veto-power.
Posted by: James | July 07, 2004 at 10:14 AM
and keeping the veto-ability only for the Bush administration?
Posted by: Arturas | July 07, 2004 at 09:10 PM
Why, just abandon the whole debate club. What's the current bodycount in Sudan?
Posted by: Yours Digitally | July 07, 2004 at 09:23 PM
My UN fix-it plan:
1. Throw all non-democracies out. They can be observers, but not
voting members. The definition of "democracy" should be rigorous
enough so that silliness like NK "votes" for Kim Jong-il aren't counted.
2. The single-country veto scheme on the SC should be abandoned. Also,
France and Russia should be kicked out of the permanent five, to
be replaced by India and Brazil. Since it isn't a democracy, China is
a tricky question, but maybe democratic Taiwan could vote the HuaRen
seat until the glorious Commies take a dirt-nap...
3. All spending and proceedings should be open and on the Web, unless
there's an excellent reason for secrecy, such as impending military
operations. Even in these cases, archival materials should be made
available immediately upon the end of action.
--Foobarista
Posted by: Foobarista | July 08, 2004 at 04:00 AM
@ James: allright, you got me there with a rather ambivalent phrasing. It should have read: revoking the veto-right for the permanent members of the SC.
This is a relict from cold war times and should not hinder the further development of the UN.
Another problem of course is that nowadays the General assembly is, due to the development of so many small nations in post-colonialism, a very tricky body to say the least. It is quite easy to get a majority against the western world within the GA at any given time..... While being rich or powerfull should of course not count for everything, just being the majority of nations should also not be enough. Hence I would suggest that in order to get a majority in the GA for anything, you should have more than half of the population presented in the GA plus more than half of the worldwide GDP combined. that should help with getting better resolutions from the GA.
What you think?
Posted by: Pat | July 09, 2004 at 12:50 PM
Schon etwas älter, aber trifft's doch auch gut:
http://people.freenet.de/hanszebeeman/AmericanHaters.gif
Posted by: Downer | July 09, 2004 at 09:59 PM