[Ultra Sonic 007]

I found this article to be very interesting, as it offers a rather deep insight into why Europe seems to hate America simply because we exist. Apparently, they hate us because of who we are, and they don't like it.

If that's the case, then I'm even more proud to be an American. One more thing...

Heidegger wrote: "We know today that the Anglo Saxon world of Americanism is resolved to destroy Europe....

Actually, Europe has done quite a fine job of destroying itself.

[kimosabe31]

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[Ultra Sonic 007]

'Triple whopper with cheese, mega-sized' ping!

[edcoil]

If Europe would quit comeing here asking for help we would not have to go.

[ClearCase_guy]

Say, wasn't Heidegger a Nazi?

[Joe 6-pack]

"A single threat to global instability weighs on the world today: America..."

Isn't a threat to instability a guarantor of stability? Why wouldn't we want to threaten global instability, and why is it such a bad thing if we do?

[oldleft]

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[add925]

Hate to admit it, but the Wacko new leader from Iran, stuck it to the Euros pretty good recently when he challenged them to create a Jewish Homeland in their own territory.

He highlighted that Euros were pretty generous with an area they didn't own and his gist was that most Euros wanted the Jewish population relocated outside their own territories at all costs.

Europeans better not complaint too much about the U.S.; their own actions are quite suspect.

[Warren_Piece]

The article is very good, but the author misses what is probably the most important layer of all: the European contempt for America's high level of religiosity. This explains why, when Billy Bob was president, while speaking religious language with a wink and a nudge, at that time Anti-Americanism was very low. He was one of "them". It also explains their irrational hatred of the very religious Bush - whose actual policies are (from a European POV) not much different from Clinton's.

A quick look at history since the Enlightement will show that the major rift between Europe and the US is the fact that most of the US churches still have people in them.

[popdonnelly]

That's quite an article. Thanks for posting it.

[RoadTest]

"Heidegger wrote: "We know today that the Anglo Saxon world of Americanism is resolved to destroy Europe...."

And while we're at it, what's so great about Anglo-Saxons (my rotten, violent cutthroat ancestors) anyway? They murdered the Christian Britons and burned their scriptures.

[NZerFromHK]

In addition to atheistic humanism, there is a related but different anti-Americanism as High Toryism which is a particularly Anglocentric counterpart to European Corporatist (religious-filled) anti-Americanism. It forms the heart of Canada's national identity and also much of 19th to early 20th century and once again early 21st century British political consensus. Articles about Toryism are here:

The Canadian High Tory Tradition and Our New Rep Party

Red Tory

Remember that these Tories are no friends of American conservatism and is also reflected by their own hatred of Atlantists such as Margaret Thatcher - Thatcher is at heart a classical liberal in ythe Hayekian tradition or an American conservative. Many of these Tories (and their European counterparts) such as Sir Max Hastings are High Church Anglicans or devout Catholics and no atheists, although usual atheists exists like Matthew Parris.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

So many words written to state the obvious: Europe looks in the mirror and does not like what it sees. Instead of looking inward with resolve to better themselves and their countries, they lash out at those that escaped the plight that they now are forced to endure, due to the lack of qualities that Americans possess. We are rugged individuals assured of the blessings of liberty and rights granted by God, yet cohesive to the extreme in times of national peril.

While they remain perplexed, we bother to fight for freedom, and dare to give thanks to the Lord our God.