“Fair and Balanced” BBC: Ranting anti-Americanisms. (Business as usual at Aunty Beeb)

National Review ^ | February 24, 2005 | Myrna Blyth

[teldon30]

Do you smell that?

[HamiltonJay]

"to hold firm to a principle even when practicalities get in the way."

That's called having CHARACTER.... Times change, PRINCIPLES DON'T! They are TIMELESS.... whoever this twit is, he's dumber than Paris Hilton's parents.

[TheBigB]

And I must tell you, on a trip to NZ last year, people came up to us and said (with gentleness--would they get that from you, by the way?

Nope. I'd have said, "Your opinions about my country don't matter in the slightest."

I, a flag-flying liberal

Interesting. Which flag are you waving? the UN? Cuba? Canada? The old Soviet Union?

[CompSciGuy]

>And I must tell you, on a trip to NZ last year, people came up to us and said (with gentleness--would they get that from you, by the way?)how concerned they were about USA's attitude and direction. We need to respect other countrys' attitudes and alternative voices within our own (as I, a flag-flying liberal, respect your positions.)But do think for yourself; there's way too much mean jargon flying around in the name of thought.

Unlike your trip, my trip to Ireland (a similarly powerless insignificant nation) during the Iraq War was no picnic. My Brother and I were harassed by the Irish people there who were angry that America would have the gall to attack peaceful Iraq. I suspect your liberal attitude has blinded you to the fact that most people in other countries hate us, and do not have any reservations about demeaning, threatening, or harassing Americans over our government's policies. To most people in Europe we are a gosh hick people that should not have the power, prestige, or world chairship that we do. This is an attitude that has spread since the fall of the Soviet Union, mainly because communism doesn't seem so bad to Euros (the people of Europe that are filled with the vision of an EU dominance) since it is now in the dust heap of history. The Euros fear our dominance because our values and morals still remain quite conservative, as opposed to their 'anything goes' societies.
Most Euros should just STFU and mind their own Eurolandic problems. When they start defending their own countries, sending billions in aid to the rest of the world, and putting out fires in Africa, Asia, and anywhere else, maybe then I'll care what they think.
To the Europeans who back the U.S. and remember all of the good we've done (i.e. Marshall Plan, Fall of the Berlin Wall, etc.) I'll gladly listen to you any day, these were the folks who were nice to my brother and I when we were in Ireland.
Unfortuneately the 'new generation' of Europeans are mainly the Euros types, who want an end to American Hegemony. These are the unfortunates, because EU hegemony would spell the end to capitalism, and republicanism.

[Fenris6]

Remember they and Europe have had war in their lands; we have not.

"Get thee to a history book. My great-great-grandfather died at Fort Donaldson when Union forces attacked" 1812 too.

[BushisTheMan]

And I must tell you, on a trip to NZ last year, people came up to us and said (with gentleness--would they get that from you, by the way?)how concerned they were about USA's attitude and direction.

Who cares what New Zealanders think? I don't.

[Brian Allen]

<< Britain did not maliciously declare war on Germany, [It was] an ally of Poland ... >>

Is there another way than "maliciously" to declare war?

"Kindly" perhaps -- or "lovingly?"

Although the answer to that might be in the instance of once-great Britain's 1939 declaration: "foolishly" and/or "Sheepishly" and/or "with resignation." [In that having disarmed itself and its every subject in the years between the world wars and having stuck its tail between its legs and appeased the world's and its empire's every bully, it became resigned to the reality that no belligerant could possibly be expected to take it seriously.

Congratulations -- and welcome to FR!

Blessings -- B A