Anti americanism all time high
ANTI-AMERICANISM, West European-style, is widespread, rising and migrating from its traditional home among left-wing intellectuals, academics and café society to the political mainstream, according to analysts, critics and public opinion polls. Countries such as France, Germany and Britain, which for more than five decades have been the closest allies of the United States, are beginning to drift away, propelled by a popular wave of concern, alarm and resentment. The immediate focus might be U.S. policy toward Iraq, but the larger emerging theme is an abiding sense of fear and loathing of American power, policies and motives.
Even in Britain, the most cherished American ally, Prime Minister Tony Blair felt compelled to defend his support for the United States before a hostile TV audience this past week. Participants derided him as “Vice President” and “the member [of Parliament] from north Texas,” dismissed Secretary of State Colin L. Powell’s presentation to the U.N. Security Council as “absolutely laughable,” and equated President Bush with the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein.
Scenes of anti-American fervor have become a regular feature of the political landscape. At a recent antiwar rally at Ruskin College in Oxford, England, a packed audience cheered as Ken Nichols O’Keefe, a former U.S. Marine, described the United States as “the most despicable and criminal nation in the world.”
Perhaps most telling were suspicions about U.S. intentions. The poll indicated that 75 percent of the French surveyed, 54 percent of Germans and 44 percent of Britons believed a U.S. desire to control Iraqi oil was the United States’ principle reason for considering a war. The numbers might help explain why Powell’s U.N. presentation, which generally went over well with Americans, had little impact on Europeans.
**the director of the American Academy, recalled the prosperous and sophisticated German couple who sat next to him on a recent train ride to Berlin. Creators of a successful pharmaceutical research company, they were the kind of people he assumed would be most comfortable with American ideas and values. Instead, he said, they railed against American arrogance and imperial ambitions **
comment: american intentions are being found out on a daily basis and not just by the muslim ummah worldiwde. Even non muslims living accross the world can see an imperialist nation and its intentions from a mile off, pity certain guppshup members who call themself muslims always ally themselves with this arrogant imperialist nation not matter what they do!