"Judgment Day in Mystery Babylon?"

"This is what much of the anti-war Left has come to: No hypothesis is too sketchy, no fact too unsubstantiated and no emotive novelist is too under-qualified, as long as they all make the United States (and the U.S.-led globalization project) look bad." (Matt Welch)

News and commentary on anti-Americanism and anti-West sentiments.

Part 1: 2001/09/12 - 2001/09/29
Part 2: 2001/10/01 - 2001/12/28
Part 3: 2002/01/08 - 2002/06/28
Part 4: 2002/07/01 - 2002/08/30
Part 5: 2002/09/03 - 2002/09/30
Part 6: 2002/10/03 - 2002/11/30
Part 7: 2002/12/01 - 2003/01/15
Part 8: 2003/01/17 -

June 2002
"Gods and Monsters" (Salman Rushdie, The Washington Post, 2002/06/28)
"No common sense and no love of country" (Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times, 2002/06/27)
"Dowd, Krugman and Moore make inflammatory accusations" (Bryan Keefer, Spinsanity, 2002/06/26)
"Noam Alone" (Pejman Yousefzadeh, Tech Central Station, 2002/06/26)
"Conspiracy Theory Grips French: Sept. 11 as Right-Wing U.S. Plot" (Alan Riding, The New York Times, 2002/06/22)
"Europe and Africa's Hatred of America" (David Harsanyi, Capitalism Magazine, 2002/06/20)
"The "Banality of Evil" and The Political Culture of Hatred" (Paul Hollander, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/06/19)
"'Why We Fight America': Al-Qa'ida Spokesman Explains September 11 and Declares Intentions to Kill 4 Million Americans with Weapons of Mass Destruction" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 388, 2002/06/12)
"Manufacturing dissent" (Matt Welch, National Post/Matt Welch, 2002/06/08)
"bell hooks Spews Anti-American Tirade in Commencement Speech at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX" (Marc Levin, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/06/07)

May 2002
"The Ideological War Within the West" (John Fonte, Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2002)
"The September 11 X-Files" (David Corn, The Nation, 2002/05/30)
"High Noon in Paris" (Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times, 2002/05/30)
"Old, Old, Old. Tired, Tired, Tired" (Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, 2002/05/29)
"All cultures are not equal" (Kenan Malik, spiked, 2002/05/28)
"French show their resentment at latest US invasion" (Charles Bremner, The Times, 2002/05/27)
"Last refuge of scoundrels" (Bret Stephens, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/05/16)
"Uncle Sam, Made Ugly" (Sebastian Mallaby, The Washington Post, 2002/05/13)

April 2002
"Some of Israel's critics are more equal than others" (Rex Murphy, The Globe and Mail, 2002/04/27)
"The Anti-American" (Ian Buruma, The New Republic, from the 2002/04/29 issue)
"Official Palestine News Agency: The USA and the British responsibility to the Palestinian Holocaust" (IMRA, 2002/04/08)
"Among the Bourgeoisophobes" (David Brooks, The Weekly Standard, from the 2002/04/15 issue)

March 2002
"Awake, Voltaire" (Libération, 2002/03/30)
"The slyer virus: The West's anti-westernism" (Mark Steyn, The New Criterion, from the February 2002 issue)
"Quiet, Please, on The Western Front" (Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal, 2002/03/15)
"A Foul Wind" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2002/03/10)
"Continental Drift - How to combat Europe's toothless anti-Americanism" (Charles Moore, The Wall Street Journal, 2002/03/10)
"Edward Said and the War Against Terrorism" (Ronald Radosh, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/03/08)
"Left Plays Survivor" (Stanley Kurtz, National Review, 2002/03/07)
"Egyptian Columnist: Guantanamo is the Real Auschwitz" (Special Dispatch No. 351, MEMRI, 2002/03/05)
"Left-wingers fall out over claims of censorship" (Stephen Robinson, The Daily Telegraph, 2002/03/03)

February 2002
"On the right side of history" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2002/02/23 issue)
"The New Left inherits a tradition of hatred" (Michael Gove, The Times, 2002/02/19)
"My Fellow Lefties... - Stop it with the American-bashing" (Michael H. Shuman, The Weekly Standard, from the 2002/02/18 issue)
"Anti-Americanism has taken the world by storm" (Salman Rushdie, The Guardian, 2002/02/06)
"America and Anti-Americans" (Salman Rushdie, The New York Times, 2002/02/04)

January 2002
"Egyptian Government Daily: America's Torture of Al-Qa'ida Prisoners Worse Than Hitler's Treatment of Jewish and Christian 'Rivals'" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch No. 340, 2002/01/31)
"Camp X-Ray exposes a deeper malaise" (Fatima Najm, Arab News, 2002/01/30)
"X-Ray, From Close Up - The only thing tortured is the anti-American arguments" (Toby Harnden, The Wall Street Journal, 2002/01/30)
"How ridiculous can you guys get" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2002/01/26 issue)
"Atrocities in Guantanamo and other Fruit Loops tales" (Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail, 2002/01/22)
"What the hell are you doing in OUR name Mister Blair?" (The Mirror, 2002/01/21)
"Stop this brutality in our name, Mister Blair" (The Mirror, 2002/01/20)
"Occidentalism" (Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books, from the 2002/01/17 issue)
"Blaming America First" (Todd Gitlin, MotherJones, 2002/01/08)

"Gods and Monsters" (Salman Rushdie, The Washington Post, 2002/06/28)
"...one of the more worrying aspects of our more-than-worrying times is the extent to which the ordinary citizenry of the Muslim world is prepared to go along with the Osama bin Laden mob's characterization of America in particular, and of the West and "the Jews" in general, as monstrous. ... Most of the voices we have heard have had extremely harsh things to say about the United States of America, and its arrogance, brutality, ignorance and so on. ... It is difficult not to hear, in the widespread condemnations of the West's sybaritic, hedonist, sex-obsessed individualism, milder echoes of the fanatical puritanism of the Islamist extremists. It is difficult not to hear, beneath the condemnations of America's suffering at the hands of Sept. 11 murderers, a gleeful note of schadenfreude; it is difficult to ignore the admiration for the terrorists' success in giving America a bloody nose. ... But if, indeed, most of the world's 1 billion Muslims want nothing to do with terrorism, as we are constantly being told, then it's time that their leaders, educators, information media and intelligentsia stopped creating the preconditions for that terrorism by perpetuating the image of a satanic, Polyphemus-like America that is well worth destroying."

"No common sense and no love of country" (Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times, 2002/06/27)
"Gloria Steinem, actors Ossie Davis and Ed Asner, playwrights Eve Ensler ("The Vagina Monologues"), Tony Kushner ("Angels in America") and Noam Chomsky, the MIT professor who is always first in line to find fault with America, have signed a letter in the name of "people of conscience," urging "all Americans to resist the war and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush administration. It is unjust, immoral and illegitimate." ... In a poll of 634 college students, conducted by Frank Luntz for a new organization called Americans for Victory Over Terrorism, only 3 percent "strongly agree" that Western culture is superior to the culture of the Arab world. Fully 43 percent "strongly disagree." They weren't asked to consider specifically why a culture that systematically represses women, executes homosexuals, restricts the press, abrogates freedom of speech and religion and persecutes Christians and Jews is thought to be just as good as a culture that empowers women, works to eliminate prejudice against homosexuals, and guarantees freedom of the press, of speech and of religion." (See also: "College students speak out" (AVOT, 2002/06/20), for more poll results from the survey.)

"Dowd, Krugman and Moore make inflammatory accusations" (Bryan Keefer, Spinsanity, 2002/06/26)
Keffer examines recent attacks on the Bush administration suggesting that "President Bush is attempting to make himself a dictator.": "But the award for the densest attack goes to filmmaker and author Michael Moore. In a new online-only chapter of his book Stupid White Men titled "The Sad and Sordid Whereabouts of bin Cheney and bin Bush," Moore asks "What if there is no 'terrorist threat?' What if Bush and Co. need, desperately need, that 'terrorist threat' more than anything in order to conduct the systematic destruction they have launched against the U.S. constitution and the good people of this country who believe in the freedoms and liberties it guarantees?" He goes on to claim that Bush is part of a "corrupt, banal administration of con artists who shamelessly use the dead of that day in September as the cover to get away with anything." Citing an anonymous source who claims that the Bush administration refused to ban matches and cigarette lighters from flights after September 11 at the behest of the tobacco industry, Moore segues into a broad attack on Bush that concludes: 'The bottom line: Anyone who would brazenly steal an election and insert themselves into OUR White House with zero mandate from The People is, frankly - sadly - capable of anything...'" (See also: "The Sad and Sordid Whereabouts of bin Cheney and bin Bush" (Michael Moore, Michael Moore.com, June 2002))

"Noam Alone" (Pejman Yousefzadeh, Tech Central Station, 2002/06/26)
Yousefzadeh takes on Noam Chomsky, "chief among the critics of American foreign policy": "One also finds statements and assertions that are not only historically false, but morally daft and reprehensible. ... One of Chomsky's more notable comments regarding the then-impending U.S. military action in Afghanistan, was the following statement he made in a speech: ... "Looks like what's happening is some sort of silent genocide. It also gives a good deal of insight into the elite culture, the culture we are part of. It indicates that whatever, what will happen we don't know, but plans are being made and programs implemented on the assumption that they may lead to the death of several million people in the next few months very casually with no comment, no particular thought about it, that's just kind of normal, here and in a good part of Europe." ... To flatly say, without any evidence whatsoever, without any logical reasoning at all, that the United States was making plans "on the assumption that they may lead to the death of several million people in the next few months," is the worst possible kind of cheap demagoguery. And as it turns out, not only were Chomsky's comments utterly outrageous and despicable, they were also completely wrong. ... This then, is the eminence that leads the intellectual campaign against the war on terrorism. Chomsky's foolish and demonstrably false past statements make him a poor spokesman for the antiwar Left. If the antiwar movement wishes to have any vibrancy and relevance in current debates, it would do well to abandon Chomsky's fossilized rhetoric, and his unthinking, Pavlovian philosophy of automatically blaming America for the evils that confront it."

"Conspiracy Theory Grips French: Sept. 11 as Right-Wing U.S. Plot" (Alan Riding, The New York Times, 2002/06/22)
"In the book, "L'Effroyable Imposture," or "The Horrifying Fraud," Thierry Meyssan challenges the entire official version of the Sept. 11 attacks. He claims the Pentagon was not hit by a plane, but by a guided missile fired on orders of far right-wingers inside the United States government. Further, he says, the planes that struck the World Trade Center were not flown by associates of Osama bin Laden, but were programmed by the same government people to fly into the twin towers. What really interests him, though, is what he sees as the conspiracy behind these actions. He contends that it was organized by right-wing elements inside the government who were planning a coup unless President Bush agreed to increase military spending and go to war against Afghanistan and Iraq to promote the conspirators' oil interests. To achieve their goals, the theory goes, they blamed Osama bin Laden for Sept. 11 and later broadened their targets to include the "axis of evil," centered on Iraq. ... Further, confident that this conspiracy theory will endure, Mr. Meyssan and Carnot have just published a 192-page annex, with new documents, photographs and theories. They call it 'Le Pentagate.'"

"Europe and Africa's Hatred of America" (David Harsanyi, Capitalism Magazine, 2002/06/20)
"'If this country doesn't get help, doesn't get the sense of a new beginning,' said the faux humanitarian and rock star Bono on his recent fact-finding trip to Ghana with US Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill. "You (Americans) come back in five years and they'll be throwing rocks at the bus." Ironically, when the first Dunkin' Donuts opens it's doors in Accra, Ghanaians will undoubtedly grumble about the hegemonic ambitions of the United States and the loss of their unique cultural heritage. Dollars they desire; free-market capitalism they dread. ... When Bono, an Irishman, whose band U2 has sold over a hundred million albums the past 20 years and could probably buy Ghana, tries to convince the United States that aiding Africa with additional billions of American dollars is a moral imperative, he has no interest in importing what comes with, namely our culture and political morality. In fact, Bono warns us that Africa will hate us if we don't unconditionally transfer untold amounts. While that may be true, history has also proven that if we do give, they'll hate us anyway."

"The "Banality of Evil" and The Political Culture of Hatred" (Paul Hollander, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/06/19)
"Rarely in history has the relationship between belief and behavior been so clear as in the actions of the Islamic suicide pilots and bombers fortified and reassured as they had been by conceptions and personifications of evil defined with great clarity and held unhesitatingly. There was nothing banal, impersonal, dispassionate or detached about their behavior. A pure, burning hatred of the evil eagerly embraced motivated them as well as certain specific, if peculiar but deeply felt beliefs in other-wordily rewards. ... In numerous Arab countries and communities a hate-filled political culture evolved which enshrines violence as a sacred mission directed at the designated objects of hate. In these settings virulent hatred is inculcated from an early age; it is disseminated by the mass media, in schools and places of worship and sanctioned by both religious and political authorities. ... Whatever the ingredients or sources of such hatred - material deprivation, lack of education, frustration, resentment, sense of inferiority, the scapegoating impulse - it has become the dominant force fuelling political conflict and violence. Its "root cause" is not poverty but relative deprivation or frustrated expectations and the overpowering but comforting belief that others are responsible for one's misfortune."

"'Why We Fight America': Al-Qa'ida Spokesman Explains September 11 and Declares Intentions to Kill 4 Million Americans with Weapons of Mass Destruction" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 388, 2002/06/12)
Excerpts from an article by Al-Qa'ida spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith: "How can [he] possibly [accept humiliation and inferiority] when he knows that the [divine] rule is that the entire earth must be subject to the religion of Allah – not to the East, not to the West - to no ideology and to no path except for the path of Allah?... ... America is the head of heresy in our modern world, and it leads an infidel democratic regime that is based upon separation of religion and state and on ruling the people by the people via legislating laws that contradict the way of Allah and permit what Allah has prohibited. ... America, with the collaboration of the Jews, is the leader of corruption and the breakdown [of values], whether moral, ideological, political, or economic corruption. ... America is the reason for all oppression, injustice, licentiousness, or suppression that is the Muslims' lot. It stands behind all the disasters that were caused and are still being caused to the Muslims; it is immersed in the blood of Muslims and cannot hide this. ... We have not reached parity with them. We have the right to kill 4 million Americans - 2 million of them children - and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands. Furthermore, it is our right to fight them with chemical and biological weapons, so as to afflict them with the fatal maladies that have afflicted the Muslims because of the [Americans'] chemical and biological weapons."

"Manufacturing dissent" (Matt Welch, National Post/Matt Welch, 2002/06/08)
A must-read article on the anti-war left: "Just before the kidnappers sawed through Daniel Pearl's neck, they forced the Wall Street Journal reporter to "confess" that his experiences in captivity had been equivalent to those of the prisoners being held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay. ... So where did the Pakistani militants get such a monstrously inaccurate analogy? Perhaps from Gore Vidal, or international journalist/activist John Pilger, or the editorial board of London's Independent newspaper or countless dozens of anti-war Web sites in North America. Every one of these publishing entities had described the Guantanamo facility, in the days leading up to Pearl's decapitation, as a "concentration camp." ... This is what much of the anti-war Left has come to: No hypothesis is too sketchy, no fact too unsubstantiated and no emotive novelist is too under-qualified, as long as they all make the United States (and the U.S.-led globalization project) look bad. ... For years, this ideological subculture thrived in the academic shadows, far from the glare of public attention, comfortable in its grievances about being ignored. After Sept. 11, this cushy arrangement came to a crashing end. When Islamo-fascists mouth Berkeley slogans while waving around severed American heads, an engaged citizenry is now bound to take note."

"bell hooks Spews Anti-American Tirade in Commencement Speech at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX" (Marc Levin, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/06/07)
Levin on Professor bell hooks' (sic) commencement speech, in which she "condemned many members of her audience, urged them to disregard the future because caring about the future is a capitalist construct, bemoaned the so-called patriarchy, slammed the war on terrorism, and equated conservatism with murder." Here's a quote from the speech: "Indeed our nation's call for violence in the aftermath of 9/11 was an expression of widespread hopelessness, the cynicism that has been at the heart of our nation's ongoing fascination with death. Any society based on domination supports and condones violence. Yet as that violence wreaked havoc in our own hearts and in the lives of our loved ones and fellow citizens, many Americans experienced for the first time a moment of clarity when they knew without a doubt that to choose life, we must stand against violence, we must choose peace. And yet that moment of collective clarity was soon obscured by the imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal hunger to show the planet our nation's force, to show that this nation would commit absolute acts of violence that will wipe out whole nations and worlds. The world was held spellbound by our government's declaration of its commitment to violence, to death. Yet just as the violence of the terrorists who slaughtered the innocent on 9/11 does not lead us closer to justice, to reconciliation or peace, the violence acts of imperialist aggression enacted in the name of bringing an end to terrorism have brought us no closer to reconciliation, to peace, to justice."

"The Ideological War Within the West" (John Fonte, Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2002)
Fonte takes on Fukyama's thesis that Western-style liberal democracy has no serious ideological competitor, by identifying "transnational progressivism" as an ideology which challenges the liberal nation-states from within: "This alternative ideology, "transnational progressivism," constitutes a universal and modern worldview that challenges both the liberal democratic nation-state in general and the American regime in particular. ... The key concepts of transnational progressivism could be described as follows: The ascribed group over the individual citizen. The key political unit is not the individual citizen, who forms voluntary associations and works with fellow citizens regardless of race, sex, or national origin, but the ascriptive group (racial, ethnic, or gender) into which one is born. A dichotomy of groups: Oppressor vs. victim groups, with immigrant groups designated as victims. Transnational ideologists have incorporated the essentially Hegelian Marxist "privileged vs. marginalized" dichotomy. ... The same scholars who touted multiculturalism now herald the coming transnational age. Thus, Alejandro Portes of Princeton University argues that transnationalism, combined with large-scale immigration, will redefine the meaning of American citizenship. ... This intracivilizational Western conflict between liberal democracy and transnational progressivism accelerated after the Cold War and should continue well into the twenty-first century."

"The September 11 X-Files" (David Corn, The Nation, 2002/05/30)
"Corn on conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks. More specifically he debunks Michael Ruppert and Delmart "Mike" Vreeland, who "runs a website that has cornered a large piece of the alternative-9/11 market" and the book "Bin Laden; the Forbidden Truth", by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, "in which they maintain that the 9/11 attacks were the 'outcome' of 'private and risky discussions' between the United States and the Taliban 'concerning geostrategic oil interests.'": "An American who was jailed in Canada, Vreeland claims to be a US naval intelligence officer who tried to warn the authorities before the attacks. Ruppert cites Vreeland to back up his allegation that the CIA had "foreknowledge" of the 9/11 attacks and that there is a strong case for "criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in their execution." ... To believe Vreeland's scribbles mean anything, one must believe his claim to be a veteran intelligence operative sent to Moscow on an improbable top-secret, high-tech mission (change design documents to neutralize an entire technology) during which he stumbled upon documents (which he has not revealed) showing that 9/11 was going to happen. To believe that, one must believe he is a victim of a massive disinformation campaign, involving his family, law enforcement officers and defense lawyers across the country, two state corrections departments, county clerk offices in ten or so counties, the Canadian justice system and various parts of the US government. And one must believe that hundreds, if not thousands, of detailed court, county, prison and state records have been forged." (See also: and From the Wilderness, a site which focuses on Vreeland and Ruppert.)

"High Noon in Paris" (Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times, 2002/05/30)
"In Berlin, the image of President Bush, the defender of the West against an "axis of evil," is depicted with two six-shooters, the tough guy quick on the draw. The cartoon is pasted all over lamp posts that line Unter den Linden, the grand boulevard that Hitler widened for marchers celebrating the Third Reich. Before I knew it, I found myself in the middle of one of the Berlin marches before the president arrived, and a demonstrator tried to shove a poster on a stick into my hand, reading: "Achtung. Bush Kommt." This was decorated with a caricature of the president with a thick black line drawn diagonally across his face. ... Europeans, having lost real political importance, fall back on moral posturing, the notion that they are the "better people" because they keep international agreements. This leads to notions of false superiority. The Washington correspondent for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel compares the Europeans to the ascetic who claims to be acting on discipline and character in abstaining from alcohol when he's merely rationalizing his inability to hold his liquor."

"Old, Old, Old. Tired, Tired, Tired" (Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, 2002/05/29)
"The early days after Sept. 11 produced an entire instant mini-literature in dead language as our public intellectuals sought to explain the new unthinkable in the terms in which they had been thinking for decades. The intellectuals intended, in the usual way of these things, to provoke outrage. And to some modest degree they did, which led to the usual rounds of "debate" in the pages of the usual organs; and Susan Sontag and Noam Chomsky and Edward Said and Harold Pinter got their names in the papers again, which was the whole point of the exercise. But did you notice how irrelevant and inconsequential it all felt? ... It is a sense of: You're still here? You're still talking? Why? ... These people - precisely these people - have been saying these things - precisely these things - since, in many cases, the early Dylan years (Bob, mostly, although in some cases Thomas). ... Reading, say, The New York Review of Books, you are increasingly struck with the realization that it is simply reactionary; this is our Old Guard now."

"All cultures are not equal" (Kenan Malik, spiked, 2002/05/28)
"To be radical today is to display disenchantment with all that is 'Western' - by which most mean modernism and the ideas of the Enlightenment - in the name of 'diversity' and 'difference'. ... 'Subjugation', according to the philosopher David Goldberg, 'defines the order of the Enlightenment: subjugation of nature by human intellect, colonial control through physical and cultural domination, and economic superiority through mastery of the laws of the market'. ... Enlightenment universalism, such critics argue, is racist because it seeks to impose Euro-American ideas of rationality and objectivity on other peoples. 'The universalising discourses of modern Europe and the United States', argues Edward Said, 'assume the silence, willing or otherwise, of the non-European world.' ... The corollary of turning the whole world into a network of victims is to transform the West, and in particular the USA, into an all-powerful malign force - the Great Satan - against which all must rage. ... In this fatalism lies a common thread that binds contemporary Western radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. On the surface the two seem poles apart: fundamentalists loathe Western decadence, Western radicals fear Islamic presumptions of certainty. But what unites the two is that both are rooted in contemporary nihilistic multiculturalism; both express, at best, ambivalence about, at worst outright rejection of, the ideas of modernity, universality, and progress. And both see no real alternative to Western power."

"French show their resentment at latest US invasion" (Charles Bremner, The Times, 2002/05/27)
"The Americans landed in force in France yesterday, from the seaside villages of Normandy to the heart of Paris. Their arrival stoked the anger of thousands of protesters who see President Bush as the world’s biggest bully and warmonger. ... In the capital's Place de la République and in the Norman city of Caen, there were demonstrations against the "evil empire" of "le cowboy Bush". The protesters included intellectuals, anti-globalisation champions and officials from the Green and Communist parties that were part of the last Government of Lionel Jospin. ... In Caen, where Mr Bush will today pay homage to the American dead at the D-Day landing beaches, protesters shouted: "No to imperial America." The President was accused of 'using the memory of the soldiers killed fighting Nazism to promote his plan for world domination.'"

"Last refuge of scoundrels" (Bret Stephens, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/05/16)
"Anti-Americanism is a neurosis, both personal and cultural. It is a close cousin of anti-Semitism, and it is a cover for anti-Semitism. It is a mixture of a sense of betrayal, of envy, of exaggerated expectations born to collapse into cynicism, of a self-deception that turns, as it so often does, personal failure into political rage, and of what Friedrich Nietzsche rightly identified as the spirit of resentiment. It will remain with us, just as anti-Semitism will remain with us, so long as Americans and Jews exist on this earth, and it will have to be combatted if Americans and Jews are to remain on this earth."

"Uncle Sam, Made Ugly" (Sebastian Mallaby, The Washington Post, 2002/05/13)
"Here in Europe, you get a fresh view of the United States. It is a country "increasingly in thrall to a very particular conservatism"; it languishes in "the extraordinary grip of Christian fundamentalism"; its democracy is "an offense to democratic ideals." The aforementioned "overblown conservative rhetoric" sadly "prevents self-knowledge and intelligent self-criticism." Indeed, this "dominant conservatism is very ideological, almost Leninist." The U.S. economy, meanwhile, "rests on an enormous confidence trick." It is governed by "a Wall Street crazed by greed" with the result that "corporate America now no longer principally seeks to innovate." It produces "severe economic and social problems": There has been "a marked growth in American selfishness and introversion"; "obesity has reached unprecedented levels." All that before you get to the "tenacious endemic racism" and the grim fact that "citizens routinely shoot each other." These quotes do not come from some marginal fringe nut. They come from "The World We're In," a new book by Will Hutton, a former editor of the London Observer, a traditional beacon of Britain's high-brow left."

"Some of Israel's critics are more equal than others" (Rex Murphy, The Globe and Mail, 2002/04/27)
"The real conundrum for those agonizing over their criticism of Israel and whether this might be construed as anti-Semitism is a question that, so far as I can tell, no one wants to ask: Is it possible to be anti-American and not criticize Israel? Professional anti-Americans really don't have much field of manoeuvre when it comes to Israel. America is Israel's sponsor, its friend and ally, so obviously Israel cannot be right, ever. If Israel is under the protection of the imperialist, globalist, capitalist hegemon, why then - pass me the old res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself - Israel must always be wrong. ... They are prejudiced against Israel by the logic of their movement. They are, as it were, pro-Palestinian by default. They take sides and wake up to find themselves sharing parts of the landscape with some very scary people who really are anti-Semitic."

"The Anti-American" (Ian Buruma, The New Republic, from the 2002/04/29 issue)
A review of Arundhati Roy's "Power Politics" and "The Algebra of Infinite Justice": "But when Roy attempts to tackle a wider world, fulminating against the American intervention in Afghanistan, or against "globalization," her tone and her stylistic tics become more than irritating. Her demonology of the United States takes on the foaming-at-the-mouth, eye-rolling quality of the mad evangelist. ... The moral-equivalence argument is crudely employed. Terrorism, Roy writes, is "as global an enterprise as Coke or Pepsi or Nike." Terrorists move their "factories" from country to country "in search of a better deal. Just like the multinationals." This is true, as far as it goes, but the business of Pepsi is not exactly mass murder. The terrorists, Roy goes on to say, are "the ghosts of the victims of America's old wars." ... Arundhati Roy's overheated prose gives criticism a bad name. She makes it too easy for unthinking patriots to dismiss any foreign skepticism toward American policy as mere envy or prejudice. And the effect of her voice in the non-Western world might be worse. The Iraqi intellectual dissident Kanan Makiya observed in his book Cruelty and Silence that Edward Said's Orientalism contributed to a pervasive lack of a sense of responsibility among young Arab intellectuals for the problems of the Middle East. If everything is the fault of a supposedly omnipotent America, or of ingrained Western colonial attitudes, then there is nothing to be done at home, except lash out in a rage." (See also: "The algebra of infinite justice" (Arundhati Roy, The Guardian, 2001/09/29) and "'Brutality smeared in peanut butter'" (Arundhati Roy, The Guardian, 2001/10/23))

"Official Palestine News Agency: The USA and the British responsibility to the Palestinian Holocaust" (IMRA, 2002/04/08)
From an editorial published by Palestine News Agency: "So Arafat will not surrender and will not give up, the USA scheme will never achieve its destination, but will boomerang back baring blood and the responsibility of the killing, and filling the Arab and the Moslem nation with hate and rage towards the USA. Bush has proven that he became a puppet not only in the hands of the USA various institutes, but in the Jewish and Israeli hands also, yesterday he reached another hypocrisy climax when he said that the USA is the most loyal friend to Israel, burdening the USA with the Palestinian shed blood in the Jenin Refugee Camp while the cameras were prevented from recording the Holocaust is taking place... President Bush, and the British Prime minister the heir of the Palestinian historical "Nakba" (Holocaust), are both responsible for every Palestinian drop of blood that has been shed in the Palestinian occupied lands by the Israeli criminal forces..." (See also: "The USA and the British responsibility to the Palestinian Holocaust" (WAFA, 2002/04/08))

"Among the Bourgeoisophobes" (David Brooks, The Weekly Standard, from the 2002/04/15 issue)
"In fact, bourgeoisophobia, which has flowered variously and spread to places as diverse as Baghdad, Ramallah, and Beijing, is the major reactionary creed of our age. ... Americans and Israelis, in this view, are the money-mad molochs of the earth, the vulgarizers of morals, corrupters of culture, and proselytizers of idolatrous values. These two nations, it is said, practice conquest capitalism, overrunning poorer nations and exploiting weaker neighbors in their endless desire for more and more. ... Today the battle lines are forming. The dispute over Palestine, which was once a local conflict about land, has been transformed into a great cultural showdown. The vast array of bourgeoisophobes - Yasser Arafat's guerrilla socialists, Hamas's Islamic fundamentalists, Jose Bove's anti-globalist leftists, America's anti-colonial multiculturalists, and the BBC's Oxbridge mediacrats - focus their diverse rages and resentments on this one conflict. ... They have only their nihilistic rage, their envy mixed with snobbery, their snide remarks, their newspaper distortions, their conspiracy theories, their suicide bombs and terror attacks - and above all, a burning sense that the rising, vibrant, and powerful peoples of America and Israel must be humiliated and brought low."

"Awake, Voltaire" (Libération, 2002/03/30)
[Note: Translation from French made with BabelFish] Thierry Meyssan's book "L'effroyable imposture" ("The Appalling Imposture") has become an immediate success in France, selling more than 100,000 copies in one week. In the book Meyssan implies that the American Government was behind the September 11 terror attacks. His "proof" is the allegation that there was no Boeing aircraft involved in the attack against Pentagon. Libération deals with Meyssans conspiracy theory in three articles: "Just as their anti-semitism clings to any "detail" of the history of the camps of death to dodge the scientific work most serious and the results best established, in the same way the pseudo-theories of Appalling Imposture feed with the paranoiac anti-Americanism which is one of the most constant components of the French political cauldron. The responsibility for the evil can be only American. And, of the blow, the compassion which one can feel for the victims of September the 11 is turned over against the United States." (See also: '"Hunt the Boeing' Answers" (Paul Boutin & Patrick Di Justo, Paul Boutin Weblogger, 2002/03/14))

"The slyer virus: The West's anti-westernism" (Mark Steyn, The New Criterion, from the February 2002 issue)
Steyn's article is finally available online: "The critical soundtrack is not Britney, but the deeper rhythms of the culture playing underneath. The rest of the world is reluctant to acknowledge this. Mr. Mugabe says Britain is to blame for Zimbabwe. The Arabs say America is to blame for the Middle East. And Britain and America don't disagree, not really. The Durban Syndrome - the vague sense that the West's success must somehow be responsible for the rest's failure - is a far slyer virus than the toxic effusions of the Chomsky-Sontag set, and it has seeped far deeper into the cultural bloodstream."

"Quiet, Please, on The Western Front" (Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal, 2002/03/15)
"'Let's Nuke Em All!' Britain's Daily Mail headlined this week. The story was about the U.S. government review of its nuclear capabilities. Someone - Mary McGrory wondered in her column if it was "doomsday planners" or "a subversive showoff" - leaked the news that the U.S. may be re-evaluating its nuclear posture, strategy and potential targets with an eye to breaking the taboo on tactical nuclear weapons. The New York Times, one of the great newspapers of the world and received by some in the world as a voice of the West, ran an editorial in which it likened America to a "rogue state." A columnist in the Boston Globe said President Bush is "as frightening as al Qaeda." ... Why are we being so careless and colorful, so offhand, at a time when what faces us is so somber? Maybe we in the media are not thinking of the impression we make en masse, all together, on the world."

"A Foul Wind" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2002/03/10)
"There is something about this new, intensely violent, stage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that is starting to feel like the fuse for a much larger war of civilizations. ... But once these forces are all bundled together, they express themselves in the most heated anti-Israeli and anti-American sentiments that I've ever felt. ... "The question is whether Palestinian extremists will do what bin Laden could not: trigger a civilizational war," said the Middle East analyst Stephen P. Cohen. 'If you are willing to give up your own life and that of thousands of your own people, the overwhelming power of America and Israel does not deter you any more. ... That's why this Israeli-Palestinian war is not just a local ethnic conflict that we can ignore. It resonates with too many millions of people, connected by too many satellite TV's, with too many dangerous weapons.'"

"Continental Drift - How to combat Europe's toothless anti-Americanism" (Charles Moore, The Wall Street Journal, 2002/03/10)
"Ever since President Bush's "axis of evil" speech, Europeans have been fuming over what they see as U.S. war-mongering. Indeed, to many European sophisticates, the mere idea of "rogue states" is seen as crude. ... And here we arrive at the crux of the problem. To the European elite, the language of morality in foreign affairs is, to use a favored diplomatic word, "unhelpful." Nothing in international relations is good or bad, the elites believe; certainly nothing is "evil." Unilateral action is, to use a word forbidden by the previous proposition, bad. Military action alone solves nothing. True statecraft must address what are seen as root causes. One cause of terrorism, in the more extreme European versions of this argument, is America.

"Edward Said and the War Against Terrorism" (Ronald Radosh, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/03/08)
"To Said, the problem is not that we in the West and in our own country are faced with a major and dangerous terrorist foe, a foe inspired by radical Islam - but rather the problem is "how to deal with the unparalleled and unprecedented power of the United States," whose rulers - a "small circle of men," - have decided to unleash an unjust war against the entire Muslim world. We have, in clear words, his main point: The enemy of the world is the United States and our democratically elected leaders. Among other crimes, it has carried out what he calls the "Israelisation of US Policy," symbolized by what he sees as a kowtowing to Arial Sharon. ... What Said attempts to do is to deflect our attention away from this very real threat, and to make it appear that the Bush administration simply views any nation with different views as an enemy, or as he puts it, 'eradicating everyone who opposes the US.'" (See also: "Thoughts About America" (Edward Said, Al-Ahram Weekly/ZNet, 2002/03/02))

"Left Plays Survivor" (Stanley Kurtz, National Review, 2002/03/07)
"Wideman begins with the fact that he is an African American living at the "ground zero" of pervasive American racism: "I'm sorry. I'm an American of African descent, and I can't applaud my president for doing unto foreign others what he's inflicted on me and mine." ... His point is that Bush has cooked up a fraudulent war abroad "to upstage and camouflage the real war at home" (i.e. the "war" of a racist white American society against blacks). Wideman has next to nothing to say about Islamic terrorism. He's preoccupied instead with the cultural and political effects on America of a war with "alarmingly open-ended goals." Bush's "phony war," says Wideman is being waged not "to defend America from an external foe but to homogenize and coerce its citizens under a flag of rabid nationalism." ... We use the word "terrorist," Wideman says, to deny the possibility of "reasoned exchange" with our foes, to project the evil in ourselves onto a despised "Other." Funny, I thought it was the terrorists themselves who'd traded in reasoned exchange for murderous scapegoating."

"Egyptian Columnist: Guantanamo is the Real Auschwitz" (Special Dispatch No. 351, MEMRI, 2002/03/05)
"An article by Islamist Dr. Rif'at Sayyid Ahmad, titled "Guantanamo, the Auschwitz of the American era: J'accuse!!" recently appeared in the Lebanese daily Al-Liwa. ... '...We always see how human beings prey upon each other, how values are trampled, and how tragedies recur. This is exactly what happened, and is still happening, at the 'American Auschwitz' detention camp...excuse me, I meant the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay!! This is one of the worst deeds of the American era in which we live, and one of the most infamous of its crimes, and will go down in history if [history] is written by men of honor, not by traitors.'"

"Left-wingers fall out over claims of censorship" (Stephen Robinson, The Daily Telegraph, 2002/03/03)
"Allegations of censorship are roiling through the world of Left-wing magazines as disgruntled writers say they have been muzzled in trying to challenge their editors' post-September 11 anti-Americanism. John Lloyd, a former editor of the New Statesman as well as a regular contributor, became so disgusted by the magazine's "ferociously anti-American coverage" and its savage criticism of Tony Blair for backing Washington that he wrote a letter for publication denouncing it. ... He noted that the New Statesman had a long record of getting important issues wrong, such as its past belief that Stalin was a great leader and that Hitler should be appeased. "It is now tending to follow and confirm a fashion on the Left that America is the source of world evils and that New Labour is a servile failure," he wrote."

"On the right side of history" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2002/02/23 issue)
"For more than five months now, a continuous stream of preposterous criticism of the Americans has had at its core the assumption that such a demotic culture must necessarily be a profoundly stupid one. Yet funnily enough, it's the sophisticates who keep getting everything wrong: the Arab street will rise up! Musharraf will be overthrown! The Taleban will never surrender! Millions will starve! Thousands of Afghan civilians are dead! (Not true: see below.) There's evidently a powerful psychological need among the non-American Western elites to believe that, if America is big, it must also be blundering; if it's powerful, it must also be clumsy; if it's technologically superior, it must also be morally inferior."

"The New Left inherits a tradition of hatred" (Michael Gove, The Times, 2002/02/19)
"The first trend, Ray-Ban Radicalism, is now common on the Left, where foreign affairs are seen through a single set of lenses. Conflicts everywhere are perceived as struggles between "imperialist" oppressors and the wretched of the earth, irrespective of the real complexities. In Cuba and Nicaragua, and with increasing inappropriateness in Ulster and Israel, the Left indulges terror while casting its victims as the "real" oppressors. In the Middle East the terrorists who challenge Israel's right to exist are invested with radical chic and suicide bombers are depicted as romantic martyrs rather than mass-murderers."

"My Fellow Lefties... - Stop it with the American-bashing" (Michael H. Shuman, The Weekly Standard, from the 2002/02/18 issue)
"The Left's first reaction after the September 11 attacks was to suggest that America was finally getting its just deserts. Bill Blum, an author of anti-CIA books frequently quoted by the undergraduate Left, argued that the terrorist hijackers "had a political purpose: retaliation for decades of military, economic and political oppression imposed upon the Middle East by The American Empire." ... While the World Trade Center site continued to smolder, a new slogan began to circulate: "Justice, Not Vengeance." This at least had the virtue of not making common cause with Osama bin Laden. Yet, the formula was intended to suggest that any use of force was tantamount to revenge and therefore unjustified. ... Progressives, who were so unwilling to condemn the use of force by terrorists, were eager to condemn any use by the victims, before a single shot was even fired."

"Anti-Americanism has taken the world by storm" (Salman Rushdie, The Guardian, 2002/02/06)
"America did, in Afghanistan, what had to be done and did it well. The bad news, however, is that none of these successes has won friends for the United States outside Afghanistan. In fact, the effectiveness of the American campaign may paradoxically have made the world hate America more than it did before. Western critics of America's Afghan campaign are enraged because they have been shown to be wrong at every step: no, US forces weren't humiliated the way the Russians had been; and yes, the air strikes did work; and no, the Northern Alliance didn't massacre people in Kabul; and yes, the Taliban did crumble away like the hated tyrants they were, even in their southern strongholds; and no, it wasn't that difficult to get the militants out of their cave fortresses; and yes, the various factions succeeded in putting together a new government that is surprising people by functioning pretty well. Meanwhile, those elements in the Arab and Muslim world who blame America for their own feelings of political impotence are feeling more impotent than ever."

"America and Anti-Americans" (Salman Rushdie, The New York Times, 2002/02/04)
"In spite of the military successes, America finds itself facing a broader ideological adversary that may turn out to be as hard to defeat as militant Islam: anti-Americanism, which is presently becoming more evident everywhere. ... These days there seem to be as many of these accusers outside the Muslim world as inside it. Anybody who has visited Britain and Europe, or followed the public conversation there during the past five months, will have been struck, even shocked, by the depth of anti-American feeling among large segments of the population. Western anti-Americanism is an altogether more petulant phenomenon than its Islamic counterpart and far more personalized. Muslim countries don't like America's power, its "arrogance," its success; but in the non-American West, the main objection seems to be to American people. Night after night, I have found myself listening to Londoners' diatribes against the sheer weirdness of the American citizenry. The attacks on America are routinely discounted. ("Americans only care about their own dead.") American patriotism, obesity, emotionality, self-centeredness: these are the crucial issues."

"Egyptian Government Daily: America's Torture of Al-Qa'ida Prisoners Worse Than Hitler's Treatment of Jewish and Christian 'Rivals'" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch No. 340, 2002/01/31)
Al-Ahram outdoes even British tabloids in it's description of the treatment of the prisoners at Camp X-Ray: "Renowned Egyptian author and columnist for the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, Anis Mansour, describes the treatment of the Al-Qa'ida and Taliban prisoners as 'worse than prisoners under the Nazis.' Following are excerpts from his article: 'No one expected it to be turned into a base for torturing Al-Qa'ida members from Afghanistan, in a way unprecedented in history - worse than what Hitler did to his rivals from among the Jews and Christians. ... Hitler's soldiers burned, strangled, and then killed. But America's prisoners were transferred in planes, on [a trip] lasting twenty hours. Under normal circumstances, the trip would not have been exhausting. But what was done to the prisoners is abominable! ... In the solitary confinement cells, the darkness is absolute. Suddenly, [the Americans] shine a brilliant light and make aggressive [loud] noise for a few moments; then quiet and darkness are restored. Those moments are enough to make the prisoners blind, deaf, and brain-damaged.'"

"Camp X-Ray exposes a deeper malaise" (Fatima Najm, Arab News, 2002/01/30)
An anti-American editorial critisizing the treatment of the prisoners at Camp X-Ray: "And yet, almighty America has decided it will do as it pleases with its prisoners: and to heck with international law. They have humiliated the prisoners by shaving their heads and beards, made them strip, and then wear a uniform that includes goggles to blind them, ear muffs to block sound and hoods to further disorient them. And gloves too. No wonder British tabloid headlines are screaming "TORTURE". It’s sensory deprivation. Others have used this method as have the Israelis and now America has joined their infamous ranks. So much for civilized society." (See also: "Human Rights in Saudi Arabia: A Deafening Silence" (Human Rights Watch, December 2001) for some perspective on what constitutes a "civilized society".)

"X-Ray, From Close Up - The only thing tortured is the anti-American arguments" (Toby Harnden, The Wall Street Journal, 2002/01/30)
"The sad thing is that the British media don't care what's really happening. On the left, the story is a way to attack Donald Rumsfeld, who is the new European bogeyman now that it is no longer tenable to portray President Bush as an amiable doofus. ... The central rationale for Camp X-Ray is that proper interrogations need to be carried out and future al Qaeda attacks prevented. Guarding the inmates is dangerous but vital work. My own carping countrymen, who may well be saved from an atrocity in Britain as a result, stand to be among the principal beneficiaries of the exercise. But my advice to Americans would be to expect precious little thanks for it."

"How ridiculous can you guys get" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2002/01/26 issue)
"Still, my colleagues may be heartened to know that Britain’s getting far more attention for its anti-Americanism than it did when it was backing Bush 100 per cent. ... Your side really has got a coalition: Britain, Mary Robinson, the EU, UN, Red Cross. And it’s making quite an impression: many people over here had no idea quite how ridiculous you are. You’re shocked by us, we’re laughing at you. ... The West won’t work if every country’s Canada and every leader’s Trudeau. The only thing that enables Belgium to be Belgium and Norway to be Norway and Britain to be Britain is the fact that America’s America — for all the reasons my Spectator colleagues deplore."

"Atrocities in Guantanamo and other Fruit Loops tales" (Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail, 2002/01/22)
"I had a nightmare that I was flying on an airplane with both a terrorist and Liberal MP John Godfrey. The terrorist tried to ignite the fuse in his shoe bomb and blow the plane to smithereens. As the other passengers jumped all over him and strapped him down with belts and ties, Mr. Godfrey leaped to his feet and started shouting, "Remember the Geneva Convention!" ... There are a lot of people who are out to catch the Americans committing war crimes. They keep at it in the teeth of all the evidence. "Torture!" screamed the Daily Mail, a British tabloid, over a picture of some Taliban fighters in shackles. ... So far, there's not a shred of evidence that the Americans have mistreated anyone, unless you call forced shaving mistreatment." (Note: The Independent incidentally sees it as far worse than mistreatment: "To take one example, the shaving of heads and beards of some prisoners is not just degrading; it also hands America's enemies a priceless propaganda gift. It is almost as if America seems bent on confirming the claims of the fanatics that the war on terror was, in fact, a war on Islam." (The Independent, 2002/01/22))

"What the hell are you doing in OUR name Mister Blair?"
(The Mirror, 2002/01/21)

"Stop this brutality in our name, Mister Blair" (The Mirror, 2002/01/20)
An example of British medias hysterical overreaction to the fact that arriving Camp X-Ray prisoners were manacled and "forced to kneel". Nevermind that even small scale offenders are routinely "forced to kneel" or even lie down by virtually all military and police forces around the world: "This is what is being done in the name of humanity, civilisation and the British people. These prisoners are trapped in open cages, manacled hand and foot, brutalised, tortured and humiliated. ... The treatment of the prisoners in Cuba is no more than a sick attempt to appeal to the worst red-neck prejudices. ... The President and his head-banging associates are proud of them, proud of the cruelty inflicted in their name, proud of the vengeance they are taking."

"Occidentalism" (Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books, from the 2002/01/17 issue)
"The modern city, representing all that shimmers just out of our reach, all the glittering arrogance and harlotry of the West, has found its icon in the Manhattan skyline, reproduced in millions of posters, photographs, and images, plastered all over the world. You cannot escape it. You find it on dusty jukeboxes in Burma, in discothèques in Urumqi, in student dorms in Addis Ababa. It excites longing, envy, and sometimes blinding rage. The Taliban, like the Nazi provincials horrified by "nigger dancing," like Pol Pot, like Mao, have tried to create a world of purity where visions of Babylon can no longer disturb them. ... Whatever Israel does, it will remain the alien grit in the eyes of Muslim purists. And the US will always be intolerable to its enemies. In bin Laden's terms, "the crusader-Jewish alliance, led by the US and Israel," cannot do right. The hatred is unconditional. As he observed in a 1998 interview for al-Jazeera TV: "Every grown-up Muslim hates Americans, Jews, and Christians. It is our belief and religion. Since I was a boy I have been at war with and harboring hatred towards the Americans." The September angels of vengeance picked their target carefully. Since the Manhattan skyline is seen as a provocation, its Babylonian towers had to come down." (Note: The original link is down, but the article can be found via The Wayback Machine.)

"Blaming America First" (Todd Gitlin, MotherJones, 2002/01/08)
"But in the wake of September 11 there erupted something more primal and reflexive than criticism: a kind of left-wing fundamentalism, a negative faith in America the ugly. In this cartoon view of the world, there is nothing worse than American power—not the woman-enslaving Taliban, not an unrepentant Al Qaeda committed to killing civilians as they please—and America is nothing but a self-seeking bully. It does not face genuine dilemmas. It never has legitimate reason to do what it does. When its rulers' views command popularity, this can only be because the entire population has been brainwashed, or rendered moronic, or shares in its leaders' monstrous values."

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