"Judgment Day in Mystery Babylon?"

"Anti-Americanism should be studied as a serious psychological affliction, a pathological condition which paralyses the mind's analytical capacity." (Greg Sheridan)

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 -

February 2003
"Despising America" (Greg Sheridan, The Australian, 2003/02/06)
"CBS TV Star Compares America to Nazi Germany" (NewsMax.com, 2003/02/03)
"Hunter S. Thompson" (John Glassie, Salon.com, 2003/02/02)
"Ah, Those Principled Europeans" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2003/02/02)
"Susan Sontag Nominee" (andrewsullivan.com, 2003/02/01)

January 2003
"Merciless Punishment To the US!" (Korean News Service/Corsair the Rationale Pirate, 2003/01/31)
"Cool Retro-Commie, Axis of Evil Member War Posters" (Corsair the Rationale Pirate, 2003/01/31)
"Stars speak up for peace" (Ben Davies, BBC News, 2003/01/31)
"So Long to All That" (Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2003/01/31)
"Politicians With Guts" (Robert Kagan, The Washington Post, 2003/01/31)
"Anti-American Studies" (Alan Wolfe, The New Republic, 2003/01/30)
"Blair is a coward" (John Pilger, The Daily Mirror, 2003/01/29)
"Stupidity Watch" (James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, 2003/01/28)
"Jack Lang: The Bush Team is 'possessed with totalitarianism'" (AFP/Le Figaro, 2003/01/23)
"The War According to John le Carre" (Richard Cohen, The Washington Post, 2003/01/23)
"Marching With Stalinists" (Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, 2003/01/22)
"In San Francisco: Theatrical Bush hate" (Gary Kamiya, Salon.com, 2003/01/20)
"The Anti-Warriors" (Daniel J. Flynn, National Review, 2003/01/20)
"Britain's New Clout - The Fruits of Anti-Anti-Americanism" (Andrew Sullivan, Sunday Times/Andrewsullivan.com, 2003/01/19)
"I Want You to Die for Israel..." (Right-Thinking from the Left Coast, 2003/01/18)
"Marches in World Capitals Oppose Iraq War" (AP/ABC News, 2003/01/18)
"Susan Sontag Nominee" (Andrew Sullivan, andrewsullivan.com, 2003/01/17)

"Despising America" (Greg Sheridan, The Australian, 2003/02/06)
"One of the fascinating things about the Australian Iraq debate is that Iraq doesn't figure in it much. The Government is almost the only participant talking about Iraq. Simon Crean barely mentioned it in his speech on Tuesday. Many of the commentators ostensibly on Iraq hardly mention Iraq at all, because analysing Iraq requires some intellectual work, whereas sounding off about the US requires only attitude.
Anti-Americanism should be studied as a serious psychological affliction, a pathological condition which paralyses the mind's analytical capacity. Contemporary anti-Americanism has many sources. Let me offer you just a few.
The first is the US itself. No society is more self-critical or self-analytical than the US. As most of our intellectual life is an imitation of the US, so our critique of the US is often an imitation, sometimes a direct import, of the US. Journalists strive to be Woodward and Bernstein of Watergate fame. ...
Many of the chattering classes cherish the image of themselves as rebels. But they live and breathe in the security provided ultimately by the US alliance system. They're rebelling against mum and dad. No one is more celebrated in contemporary Western culture than the individualistic rebel. Baby boomers are especially assiduous in awarding themselves the status of rebel moral hero. By only rebelling against the ever tolerant US they risk no personal discomfort from their heroism, always a happy combination."

"CBS TV Star Compares America to Nazi Germany" (NewsMax.com, 2003/02/03)
Can we please, please, please stop this braindead habit of comparing America, Bush, Israel, Sharon and their policies with Nazi Germany, Hitler and the Holocaust? To compare liberal democracies with the worst totalitarian regime in the history of mankind is not only an outrageous mockery of democratic values and freedoms, but also of the actual victims of the Nazi regime's atrocities: "David Clennon, star of the hit CBS television series "The Agency," said Monday that the "moral climate" of America under President Bush is similar to that which pervaded Nazi Germany. Then, apparently not satisfied with merely insulting the U.S., Clennon contended that the only difference between Bush and Adolf Hitler is that Hitler was smarter.
"I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany," Clennon told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity.
When Hannity asked if Clennon was comparing the U.S. president to the Nazi leader, the CBS star replied, 'I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler. And secondly George Bush has much more power than Adolf Hitler ever had.'" (Note: Found via Right Wing News. See also: "Godwin's Law" (The Jargon Dictionary): "'As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.' There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.")

"Hunter S. Thompson" (John Glassie, Salon.com, 2003/02/02)
An interview with the "godfather of gonzo", who talks about American "concentration camps" and "bogeymen". Of course, reiterating that the threat of terrorism and rogue states is "manufactured" even after 9/11 is just ridiculous: "I assume you've taken a side in the civil liberties debate that's come up in the aftermath of 9/11?
It's a disaster of unthinkable proportions - part of the downward spiral of dumbness. Civil liberties are black and white issues. I don't think people think far enough to see the ramifications. The PATRIOT Act was a dagger in the heart, really, of even the concept of a democratic government that is free, equal and just. There are a lot more concentration camps right now than Guantanamo Bay. But they're not marked. Now, every jail, every bush-league cop can run a concentration camp. It amounts to a military and police takeover, I think. ...
Well, as some have pointed out, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War. Is some suspension of civil liberties ever appropriate or justified in a time of war?
If there's a visible, obvious threat like Hitler, but in my mind the administration is using these bogeymen for their own purposes. This military law is nothing like the Constitution. They're exploiting the formula here: The people are afraid of something and you offer a solution, however drastic, and they go along with it. For a while, yeah. My suspicions are more justified every day with this manufacturing of dangerous killer villains." (See also: "Fear & Loathing in America" (Hunter S. Thompson, ESPN.com, 2001/09/12))

"Ah, Those Principled Europeans" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2003/02/02)
"'Power corrupts, but so does weakness,' said Josef Joffe, editor of Germany's Die Zeit newspaper. "And absolute weakness corrupts absolutely. We are now living through the most critical watershed of the postwar period, with enormous moral and strategic issues at stake, and the only answer many Europeans offer is to constrain and contain American power. So by default they end up on the side of Saddam, in an intellectually corrupt position." ...
I can live with this difference. But Europe's cynicism and insecurity, masquerading as moral superiority, is insufferable. Each year at the Davos economic forum protesters are allowed to march through the north end of town, where last year they broke shop windows. So this year, on demonstration day, all the shopkeepers on that end of town closed. But when I walked by their shops in the morning, I noticed that three of them had put up signs in their windows that said, "U.S.A. No War in Iraq."
I wondered to myself: Why did the shopkeepers at the lingerie store suddenly decide to express their antiwar sentiments? Well, the demonstrators came and left without getting near these shops. And guess what? As soon as they were gone, the antiwar signs disappeared. They had been put up simply as window insurance — to placate the demonstrators so they wouldn't throw stones at them."

"Susan Sontag Nominee" (andrewsullivan.com, 2003/02/01)
Sullivan quotes Kurt Vonnegut: "I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka 'Christians,' and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or 'PPs.'" (See also: "Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@" (Joel Bleifuss, In These Times, 2003/01/27))

"Merciless Punishment To the US!"
(Korean News Service/Corsair the Rationale Pirate, 2003/01/31)

"Cool Retro-Commie, Axis of Evil Member War Posters" (Corsair the Rationale Pirate, 2003/01/31)
Corsair has assembled four North Korean anti-American posters with translated captions, including the one above. (See also: "Report: North Korean streets awash with anti-U.S. posters" (AP/Yahoo! News, 2003/01/30): "New anti-U.S. posters have been put up along the streets of Pyongyang and other parts of North Korea pledging to fight American "imperialists," the North's state-run media said Friday. Posters of "high ideological and artistic value" were made by North Korean artists shortly after the communist country withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty on Jan. 10, said the report by the North's Korean Central News Agency." Note: In a truly Orwellian spirit, Indymedia files the article under "anti-war news". I guess lunatic warmongering counts as pacifistic as long as it's aimed at America.)

"Stars speak up for peace" (Ben Davies, BBC News, 2003/01/31)
Or: "Stars speak up for Saddam Hussein": "It read like a list from a showbiz party: Bianca Jagger, pop star Damon Albarn, director Ken Loach, actor Corin Redgrave and top architect Richard Rogers. But it didn't take the formal surroundings of the House of Commons to indicate that these were people in no mood for fun. The sombre atmosphere did that. Their minds were on just one thing: the prospect of war with Iraq. ...
Mr Redgrave said it was not so much a case of whether the war was going to happen, it was more a case of when and how. It was necessary to make very clear to both Mr Blair and Mr Bush that if they should not proceed with an attack. Both men were already war criminals because sanctions against Iraq had claimed the life of "half a million" children.
'If they proceed they will be more odious than the generals and politicians who led people into the slaughterhouse of the first world war. They'll be damned forever.'"

"So Long to All That" (Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2003/01/31)
"We should accept that, taken as a whole, the current anti-Americanism is beginning either to trump — or to reveal old differences in — our deeper common heritage. Indeed, the only thing that may yet salvage a strategic partnership is a radical change in our political relationship, beginning with the withdrawal of American troops from Germany — quietly, professionally, permanently — and from any other European state that seems uneasy with our presence. Only such action — steady and studied — will bring back an air of reality to our relations. ...
If many NATO allies oppose the United States as it removes a fascist dictatorship, if France expresses daily a visceral dislike of America, and if a continental intelligentsia sees America — not the Taliban, Saddam Hussein, the Iranians, or the North Koreans — as the world's real problem, then surely America already has enough enemies without allies and dependents such as these.
Without rancor or anger, it really is time sadly and quietly to move on and sigh, 'So long to all that.'"

"Politicians With Guts" (Robert Kagan, The Washington Post, 2003/01/31)
Kagan on the open letter by eight European leaders published yesterday: "Such sentiments are pure heresy these days in Europe, where anti-Americanism has reached a fevered intensity. ... Britain's most gifted scholars sift through American writings about Europe searching for signs of derogatory "sexual imagery." In Paris, all the talk is of oil and "imperialism" (and Jews). In Madrid, it's oil, imperialism, past American support for Franco (and Jews). At a conference I recently attended in Barcelona, an esteemed Spanish intellectual earnestly asked why, if the United States wants to topple vicious dictatorships that manufacture weapons of mass destruction, it is not also invading Israel.
Yes, I know, there are Americans who ask such questions, too. We have our Buchanans and our Gore Vidals. But here's what Americans need to understand: In Europe, this paranoid, conspiratorial anti-Americanism is not a far-left or far-right phenomenon. It's the mainstream view. When Gerhard Schroeder campaigns on an anti-American platform in Germany, he's not just "mobilizing his base" or reaching out to fringe Greens and Socialists. He's talking to the man and woman on the street, left, right and center. When Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin publicly humiliate Colin Powell, they're playing to the gallery. The "European street" is more anti-American than ever before." (See also: "United We Stand" (José María Aznar et al., The Wall Street Journal, 2003/01/30))

"Anti-American Studies" (Alan Wolfe, The New Republic, 2003/01/30)
An interesting essay on American studies turning anti-American: "Yet the third generation and the fourth generation of scholars in the field not only reject the writers who gave life to the discipline, they have also developed a hatred for America so visceral that it makes one wonder why they bother studying America at all. ...
When they go abroad to denounce America to foreign students, these scholars practice a kind of imperialism in reverse, informing young idealists abroad that the America they tend to admire is actually a fiction, and a detestable place. The results can be rather comic. One of the contributors to the Pease and Wiegman book, Dana Heller of Old Dominion University, describes her efforts to offer a Marxist interpretation of Death of a Salesman to students at Moscow State University. Fortunately for American diplomacy, her students could have cared less; they were much more impressed by an episode of The Simpsons that parodied one of Willy Loman's speeches."

"Blair is a coward" (John Pilger, The Daily Mirror, 2003/01/29)
Or: "Pilger is a balanced historian". I haven't posted anything by Pilger before and this is as good an example as any of his topsy-turvy worldview, comparing America with the Third Reich: "Unelected in 2000, the Washington regime of George W Bush is now totalitarian, captured by a clique whose fanaticism and ambitions of "endless war" and "full spectrum dominance" are a matter of record. All the world knows their names: Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Cheney and Perle, and Powell, the false liberal. Bush's State of the Union speech last night was reminiscent of that other great moment in 1938 when Hitler called his generals together and told them: "I must have war." He then had it. ...
The current American elite is the Third Reich of our times, although this distinction ought not to let us forget that they have merely accelerated more than half a century of unrelenting American state terrorism: from the atomic bombs dropped cynically on Japan as a signal of their new power to the dozens of countries invaded, directly or by proxy, to destroy democracy wherever it collided with American "interests", such as a voracious appetite for the world's resources, like oil."

"Stupidity Watch" (James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, 2003/01/28)
"The Daily Dartmouth reports that Paul Robeson Jr., son of the civil rights leader, spoke at the Hanover, N.H., campus, where he managed to liken President Bush to Stalin, Hitler and Jefferson Davis: "As a scholar of Russian studies, Robeson said that the Homeland Security Act was modeled after a collection of documents authored by Joseph Stalin and that President Bush "is part of a neo-Confederate government geared at destroying the Union." Several times during his speech Robeson mentioned the dominance of the Republican Party and the popularity of President Bush in the Southern states, making allusions to Hitler's support from southern areas of Germany. According to Robeson, there is an over-representation of white southern Protestants in Washington, including Senators Trent Lott and Bill Frist, Attorney General John Ashcroft, and Vice President Dick Cheney. Robeson also said that while certain politicians may be more polite on the outside than Trent Lott they are all 'made of the same stuff.'" (See also: "Robeson: Bush govt. is 'neo-Confederate'" (Jessica Spradling, The Dartmouth Online, 2003/01/24))

"Jack Lang: The Bush Team is 'possessed with totalitarianism'" (AFP/Le Figaro, 2003/01/23)
It's interesting to note the disproportionate European reactions to Rumsfeld characterization of France and Germany as the "old Europe". You say old. I say possessed with totalitarianism. Let's call the whole thing off: "Jack Lang, former chairman of the Foreign Affairs commission at the Assemblée nationale, accused on Thursday the cabinet of the American President George W. Bush of being "possessed with totalitarianism." Reacting in a press release to the statements of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who assailed "old Europe" on the subject of French and German opposition to a short term intervention in Iraq, Jack Lang asserted that "Mr. Rumsfeld's game is irresponsible, dangerous and criminal." "Since Mr. Rumsfeld does not hesitate to criticize our two countries, he deserves a frank reply: the war he seeks will profit American canon dealers and will play into the hands of the terrorists by exacerbating the tensions in the Muslim world," he said. According to the Socialist MP, the 'in this matter, the American government is the best objective ally of fanatics and terrorists.'" (Note: The link leads to the French original, which is translated by Douglas. See also: "Rumsfeld dismisses 'old Europe' defiance on Iraq" (CBC, 2003/01/23): "Rumsfeld seemed unimpressed with the French and German position, and said the two countries don't speak for all of Europe. "Now you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe," he said. "If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the centre of gravity is shifting to the East," said Rumsfeld.")

"The War According to John le Carre" (Richard Cohen, The Washington Post, 2003/01/23)
Cohen on John le Carré's "The United States of America has gone mad": "I found it riveting - not for its content, which is absolute blarney - but for what it says about America's image abroad and, just as important, the intellectual collapse of what is called the antiwar movement. In le Carre's formulation, the United States is being run by the "Bush junta," and any war with Iraq would be waged on account of oil - or variously, for colonialist reasons or simply to play the bully. Even "poor mad little North Korea" is somehow characterized as a victim - an example, I suppose, of le Carre's fictive gifts. What's truly disturbing about the essay is not just that le Carre's America is unrecognizable to me but that it says nothing - absolutely nothing - about what to do with Saddam Hussein. ...
This is a more pernicious madness than the one le Carre says has seized the United States. It caricatures Bush. It explains nothing and, worse, it offers no alternatives. If there is an argument to be made against a war with Iraq, then what it is? Le Carre does not say. In general, the entire left does not say. Instead, we get le Carre-like rants against Big Oil or - again le Carre - a "colonialist adventure." As with the period before World War II, a certain segment of the left has simply stopped thinking." (See also: "The United States of America has gone mad" (John le Carré, The Times, 2003/01/15))

"Marching With Stalinists" (Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, 2003/01/22)
Kelly on the "peace rallies" last weekend and the left: "The debate is over. The left has hardened itself around the core value of a furious, permanent, reactionary opposition to the devil-state America, which stands as the paramount evil of the world and the paramount threat to the world, and whose aims must be thwarted even at the cost of supporting fascists and tyrants. ...
The left marches with the Stalinists. The left marches with those who would maintain in power the leading oppressors of humanity in the world. It marches with, stands with and cheers on people like the speaker at the Washington rally who declared that "the real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America." It marches with people like the former Black Panther Charles Baron, who said in Washington, 'if you're looking for an axis of evil then look in the belly of this beast.'" (See also: "Marches in World Capitals Oppose Iraq War" (AP/ABC News, 2003/01/18))

"In San Francisco: Theatrical Bush hate" (Gary Kamiya, Salon.com, 2003/01/20)
Kamiya on the "peace" rally in San Fransisco this weekend: "Extreme fear and loathing of Bush was a common theme of the day's signs, banners, T-shirts, speeches and conversations. "Dear Florida, thanks for the war - Love, SF," read one sign. Other expressions of distaste ranged from the time-honored sign "Regime Change Begins at Home" to "Emperor Bush - You Do Not Represent Me" to "Georgy Porgy Pudding and Pie/Bombing the People and Making Them Die" to "End Bush's Evil Regime" to "George Bush: Weapon of Mass Destruction" to "Born to Kill, Born to Drill" (accompanied by a photo of Bush as Rambo) to the somewhat crude but undeniably straightforward "Bullying Unilateralist Shithead." ...
Considerable creative energy went into some attacks on the president. One large one read "Stop the Fourth Reich - Visualize Nuremberg/ Iraq." On the other side were rows of doctored photos of all the top-ranking Bush administration officials wearing Nazi uniforms and officers' caps, each with an identifying caption. Bush was identified as "The Angry Puppet" and Mind-controlled Slave/ 'Pro-life' Executioner." Cheney: "The Fuhrer, Already in His Bunker." Powell: "House Negro - Fakes Left, Moves Right." Rice: "Will Kill Africans for Oil." Ashcroft: "Faith-based fascist, sexless sadist." "Field Marshall Rummy," "Chickenhawk Wolfowitz - Jews for Genocide," and "Minister of Dis-info - Ari Goebbels" rounded out the field."

"The Anti-Warriors" (Daniel J. Flynn, National Review, 2003/01/20)
Who's obsessed with what? Flynn on Anti-Warriors in Washington, D.C this weekend: "Reesa Rosenberg, a Muslim from New Jersey, came to the nation's capital bearing a sign that read "Bush Is the Real Terrorist." "When it comes down to it, it's all for oil and global domination," she believes. "It's almost like Hitler." Rosenberg contends that people in the U.S. government had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. "Another thing about 9/11 — the United States is like a stuck-up little bitch. They just do and take all of what they please. I mean, 9/11 was terrible, but it was the first terrorist attack on this country. It's like, 'oh, no!' Somebody broke the United States' nail, now the whole earth is going to blow up." ...
Bush "definitely knew in advance," remarked John Bostrom, who traveled to the march from Staten Island. "It was like when Hitler burned down the Reichstag." Why would the Bush administration refuse to act on its prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks? "What they want to do, basically, is build a worldwide planetary death machine that's technology driven, computer run, and hooked up to satellites that cover every square inch of the globe, and allows them to target and eliminate anything they want to wherever they want to," maintained Bostrom. 'This is their plan. It's black and white. That's what they've been calling for. That's their strategy and they're obsessed by it.'" (See also: "Marches in World Capitals Oppose Iraq War" (AP/ABC News, 2003/01/18))

"Britain's New Clout - The Fruits of Anti-Anti-Americanism" (Andrew Sullivan, Sunday Times/Andrewsullivan.com, 2003/01/19)
"Just take a look at some of the "anti-war" demonstrations in the U.S. and Europe. "Bomb Texas. I Like Iraq," was a recent slogan. "Bush is the Real Terrorist" announces another. The imputation of evil motives to this White House among otherwise intelligent people is now simply routine. It is a given that the United States could not be sincere in its attempt to rid the world of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. It has to be a cloak for an oil-grab; or a Zionist conspiracy; or a corporate coup. Bush's cabinet, according to John Le Carre, is a "junta," - no different in legitimacy than the junta raping Burma or or the military dictator in Pyongyang. ...
It's designed to demonize the United States as a whole, to portray it as almost morally equivalent to the Islamist terrorism it is trying to hold back. In fact, this anti-Americanism - which embraces the far left and elements of the far-right as well - rarely proposes anything positive. And as it recites its mantras of anti-American contempt, and summons every American failing of the past fifty years without ever crediting America's successes, it marinates in its own resentment. It teeters on the edge of anti-Semitism and occasionally embraces it. In its hatred of the United States, it even finds itself close to finding excuses for the barbarity of Saddam Hussein, the cruelty of the Taliban or the malevolence of al Qaeda. There is something truly sickening in the sight of people who call themselves liberals finding more fault in America than in the brutal, misogynist, homophobic, anti-Semitic dictatorships who are now pitted against the West."

"I Want You to Die for Israel..."
(Right-Thinking from the Left Coast, 2003/01/18)

"Marches in World Capitals Oppose Iraq War" (AP/ABC News, 2003/01/18)
The globalization of idiocy: "Activists in Tokyo carried toy guns filled with flowers, one banner at a Moscow rally read "Iraq isn't your ranch, Mr. Bush," and anti-war protesters in Paris shouted, "Stop Bush! Stop war!" ... President Bush also faced peace protests in several cities at home this weekend. In Washington, rally leaders were expecting tens of thousands of activists, some arriving in bus from far-away states such as Wisconsin. In Paris, the 6,000-strong march was the third nationwide demonstration since October. ... In Moscow, Russians chanted "U.S., hands off Iraq!" and "Yankee, Go Home!" at a march outside the U.S. Embassy. One banner read: "U.S.A. is international terrorist No. 1." ... In the Middle East, a march in Cairo, Egypt, drew 1,000 people, while some of the 4,000 protesters in Beirut, Lebanon, carried posters of Saddam Hussein. Not all protesters were pushing for peace: In the Syrian capital, Damascus, some people shouted, "Our beloved Saddam, strike Tel Aviv," a refrain from the 1991 Gulf War." (Note: Right-Thinking from the Left Coast reports from the "peace rally" in San Fransisco, with lots of photos. Here's some captions from signs: "the Führer - already in his bunker" [Photomontage of Dick Cheney as Nazi], "HISTORY REPEATED" [Photo of Hitler], "STOP THE BUSHITLER", "THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BUSH & SADDAM IS THAT SADDAM WAS ELECTED" and "I Want You to Die for Israel - ISRAEL SINGS!: ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS..." ("Live From Baghdad" (Right-Thinking from the Left Coast, 2003/01/18). InstaPundit is also covering the rallies with photos and links.)

"Susan Sontag Nominee" (Andrew Sullivan, andrewsullivan.com, 2003/01/17)
"Patrice Higgonet, professor of French history at Harvard University, quoted in the French paper, Liberation, January 3.": "But there exists today as well … a second America… a troubled and disturbing America, where pluralism is above all a mask for special interests, a Christian America (Ashcroft), bursting with revolvers (Cheney), arrogant (Rumsfeld), imperial (William Kristol), racist (Trent Lott), opportunist (Condi Rice), partisan (Karl Rove), the America of spying and denunciation (Poindexter), of conspiracy (Elliot Abrams) ... of a rotten Enron-style capitalism, of the unlimited death penalty — the America, in a word, of George W. Bush. This symbolically Texan and overweeningly aggressive America wants war, cheap oil, and, incidentally, the crushing and total humiliation of the Palestinians: in a word imperial domination in its purest form. A short-sighted nationalism and capitalism, which scorn the have-nots, are its raison d’être ... Europe, sooner or later, will have to separate itself from the new America."

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