Posted on 09/15/2005 8:48:40 PM PDT by economist-student
The entire mainstream Brazilian media, without exception, is anti-American, anti-Bush, and anti-Israel, including those publications which due to their past keep a conservative façade, even though they are by no means conservative today. Everybody in Brazilian media commenting on September 11 was unanimous in attributing to the US several different degrees of the responsibility for the evil that was done to them.
There is no politician left in Brazil who is openly pro-American or pro-Israel, even among the ones who are defenders of a free market economy. There are, at best, those who defend good relations with the US exclusively in the economic arena, taking at the same time an anti-American stance in all other relevant international issues.
There are no more conservative politicians or parties in action in Brazil today. The last ones were ostracized in the last couple of years, either through suspicions of corruption that were never entirely proven, or by the defeat on the elections after a rain of accusations in the media. The bulk of the opposition to the Workers’ Party (PT), the greatest left-wing party in Brazil, is made exclusively by internal dissensions of the Left.
The American ambassador in Brazil, Donna Hrinak, made open propaganda of the leftist candidate (and current president) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, praising him as the “incarnation of the American dream,” and after that enforced further the anti-American feeling on the population, declaring in an interview that “the US does not respect Brazil”.
Well, a global movement to debilitate and neutralize the national sovereignties did exist, but it did not come from the American government, but from the EU and the UN, the same organizations that, on the other hand, did everything to politically isolate the US and Israel. As it happens, the latent conflict between US power and the great international organizations was never made public in Brazil, not even after the Durban Conference which made it patently evident.
Therefore, everything the international organizations did against national sovereignty (including the US’s own) was immediately attributed to the American government, viewed as a kind of deity controlling everything that happened in the universe. When I mentioned in the Brazilian press that President Clinton served more the purposes of these international organizations than the American State, I was called ‘a loony’ and thoroughly ignored, even among the military, who usually had respect for me.
It is not surprising that the North American president who supported international policies that tended to stimulate these hostilities was the same who in the home front protected Chinese espionage, tied the CIA’s and the FBI’s hands against international terrorism, and debilitated the American Armed Forces. All this man wanted was to obtain for the US, even at the cost of the long-term destruction of the country, certain economic advantages that allowed him to pose in front of his voters as the savior of unemployed immigrants.
So, at the same time that he gave his country an image of an imperialistic power, arrogant and proud, he made it weak and helpless, in the military as well as diplomatic arenas. This is the path to self-destruction, and I do not believe that Clinton, elected with Chinese propaganda money, did it out of mere incompetence or lack of consciousness.
The hate towards the US in Brazil today is so deep and so disseminated in all social levels that it can only be eradicated through a long and laborious educational campaign. It is necessary to explain to Brazilians that the international organizations are not the US government, that the fight of globalist imperialism for the destruction of national sovereignties is not an American enterprise, being rather anti-American, and that the nationalistic façade of the leftist organizations in Brazil hides their collaboration with the anti-American globalist imperialism. If this is not made at once, any belligerent position the next government adopts against the US will be applauded by all the Brazilian people, fallen into the web of a tragic deceit.
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Is this woman a Clinton holdover? How is she allowed to stay our Ambassador while working against us? I suppose to her, Communism is the American Dream.
So, at the same time that he gave his country an image of an imperialistic power, arrogant and proud, he made it weak and helpless, in the military as well as diplomatic arenas. This is the path to self-destruction, and I do not believe that Clinton, elected with Chinese propaganda money, did it out of mere incompetence or lack of consciousness.
More of Clinton's anti-USA legacy. When are we going to stop this foolishness? Clinton's leftist operatives are throughout our government, especially in the State Dept., the CIA, and the FBI.
Clinton's anti American Legacy is the culmination of years of infiltration and subversion within all of our major institutions.
I agree. I have written about the beginning going back to the late twenties and accelerating under FDR. Much of the WWII effort was to benefit Joe Stalin. That continued until a short interlude under Ike but accelerated again under Kennedy/LBJ. Each successive Democrat regime id damage to the US and benefited the Communist. Clinton did lots of damage despite the head start by others.
Thanks. Good link. Drugs and oil provide lots of loot for subversion and terrorism.
I am still mistified by Bush's failure to clean house of Clinton people when he came into office. I think he is too nice and too trusitng and that it is coming back to bite him and us.
I was in Brazil on 9/11. People were celebrating and cheering what happened that day. Most Brazilians hate America because we're powerful, influencial, and affluent. But, they love our music, movies, and food.
I thought Condi Rice was going to clean out the State Department - looks like nothing is going to change. We can continue to expect our nation's own diplomats to to fuel anti-americanism.
Patch Adams in Lima Peru:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485517/posts
That’s not bad. Did you write that? There are some imaginative comparisons, better than I could do on my best day, but it strays away from parallel with the Big Joe relentlessly searching for Abul. We made a big deal out of not doing that, War On Terror and its supporters rather than War on OBL or al Qaeda. We could see the scenario coming from week one. We're searching, but it's ancillary.
I suppose what I find disturbing is not that we have not found Abu, it's that one of our "friends" knows where he is and won't tell us.
I did my best just to explain really how other countries look at us. I think it is foolish that we continue to think the world needs or wants our success. Many countries smile in front of us - take our money and then secretly plot behind our backs. We seem to be oblivious to it.
If you're interested in loving America, there's no wait over there - you'd be number two, behind Poland.
Two Blondes hear on the news that two Brazilian soldiers were killed in a freak accident. One Blonde whispers to the other, "How many in a Brazilian?"
I doubt more than 10% now think the world generally cheers for our success, less than 2% with a college education. And Abu? I think the only reason he’s alive is that Musharraf wakes up every morning thanking God he wasn’t overthrown or shot in his sleep.
Who's Brazil's BIGGEST Import and Export Patner by a mile... The US so to quote a song by Billy Murray in 1916 "Don't Bite the Hand thats feeding you."
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