This from a direct beneficiary of the Marshall Plan. Unreal. We should pull out of Germany now.
Guess what, World? America doesn't care what you think. The media cares, plus the nutjob lefties. You can all keep each other company in hell some day.
Soon they will be able to say, "we are all Muslims."
God save Europe.
A far more telling comment than the one mentioned. One wonders why any country believing what she proposes, would have an army, navy, or airforce.
These people are so hypocritical that it's enough to make me puke.
"solemn remembrance" my arse. They don't care. but it's good political theatre.
Wonder why we don't see this type of article:
Five years after 9/11, Americans are still angry with the French, irritated with Russia and China, thoroughly disgusted with the United Nations and no longer trust the biased MSM as reliable news sources?
Yep, things are really bad here, that must be why tens of thousands are willing to risk life and limb for the chance to live here. I guess if everyone hates this country so much they won't mind if we close our borders.
Critics say Americans have squandered the goodwill that prompted France's Le Monde newspaper to proclaim "We are all Americans" that somber day after the attacks
There was no substance to that supposed "goodwill" to "squander". The "goodwill" lasted only as long as we agreed to remain docile victims.
and that the Iraq war and other U.S. policies have made the world less safe in the five years since.
"made the world less safe" is one of those meaningless phrases spewed by people who think it will make them sound smart. Quick, lefty genius: what was the Global Safety Index of The World in 2001, and what is it today? How much has it declined? Surely there is some objective substance to this claim that we have "made the world less safe". Couldn't just be makin' up meaningless phrases, could you?
And dissident voices brushed the portrait of a planet that has traded in civil liberties and other democratic rights in its war on terror.
Yes, we've traded in so many "democratic rights". Like the "right" to speak to an Al Qaeda member in Pakistan on the phone secure in the knowledge that nobody from the government is recording the conversation to scan for keyword and, if any show up, to listen to later.
Oh no wait. That one was struck down by a judge. So then. Can any of the whiners about all of the supposed "civil liberties and other democratic rights" they have lost, give any real significant examples?
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel — an advocate of closer ties with Washington — had veiled criticism of the United States, saying: "The ends cannot justify the means."
Um, of course ends don't justify means. The fact that the AP reporter considers this "veiled criticism of the United States" says more about the AP reporter's opinion than about anyone else's.
New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark joined many when she said: "No, we're not more secure since 9/11."
Thanks for your two cents, New Zealand's Prime Minister. So how many attacks has New Zealand suffered since 9/11?
Clark said more should be done to reach out to moderate states and leaders in the Islamic world to encourage understanding between different peoples, and to help end the sense of alienation and exclusion among some young Muslims that fuels extremism.
Brilliant. Yeah, that'll probably work.
France's President Jacques Chirac, in Helsinki, reiterated in a written message to President Bush of his nation's "friendship" in the fight against terrorism.
"Friendship" in the sense of, "Will try to prevent you from doing anything you want to do".
That solidarity quickly dissipated into rancor in the buildup to the Iraq war, when Chirac led opposition to Bush's plans.
Yes, it did, didn't it? The "solidarity" quickly dissipated. Funny how the reporter can write this sentence and not realize its import. When "solidarity" dissipates quickly, is that really a comment about us? Or about the strength of the supposed "solidarity" to begin with?
Israel's Haaretz daily expressed disappointment and cynicism in an op-ed piece that said: "This is Sept. 11 five years later: a political tool in the hands of the Bush administration."
It's just a good thing that Haaretz stayed above the fray and didn't attempt to use Sept. 11 as a political tool - you know, by taking potshots at Bush in the editorials they write, etc.
But on the streets in the capital, Kabul, many Afghans grumbled that they had not seen much improvement.
Our fault, surely. Let's bring back the Taliban.
Despite about 20,000 U.S. forces fighting al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, and about the same number of NATO troops, and billions in aid, a resurgent Taliban resistance has shaken the country, while corruption has stymied development.
It's bad that Taliban are resurgent - therefore we shouldn't have invaded and toppled the Taliban. Meanwhile there is corruption amongst Afghan elites - which is our fault. Yes, I'm familiar with this sort of tune.
In neighboring Pakistan, considered a major ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, newspapers ran bleak-toned opinion columns and editorials criticizing Western anti-terror policies and attitudes.
And this is the last sentence of the article. Bizarre. Hey thanks Elaine Ganley for this stellar reporting about what kind of things newspapers in Pakistan are editorializing.
What a rant! Of course, the world is not safer, and never will be. We are not fighting conventional warfare with a conventional army. They know that too. Terrorism is a constantly changing venue and if you ever let up for one minute, it will be a terrible mistake. It's not something that can be won in a decisive battle or two. They are everywhere, even among us.
The Euros were happy when we had a feckless, sexual sociopath in the Oval office, apologizing to anyone who would listen, when he wasn't wagging his crooked finger and blaming his defects on the "vast right-wing conspiracy", otherwise known as the `American public'.
Whoretz can KMA!
I could give a rats ass what a bunch of anti-american socialist euro elitists think of the US. Its a popularity contest we will never win, and we shouldn't even try because you'll bash us no matter what we do.
They developed a culture of hating us before 9/11, they gave fake sympathy during it, and then right back to hating us after.
Go ahead and keep hating us europe if it makes you feel less inferior, but it won't do anything to MAKE you less inferior.
Funny how much they like Americans when Americans are victims like them. When America gets up and takes action, that they can't relate to.
A whiny Leftist I know once wrote the same type of sentiment. That we had all these countries on our side and could have done something worthwhile, but we blew it. I still want to know what we were supposed to do? Have weekly candlelight vigils? Put sanctions on the terrorists? What?
As IF they'd quit without us "legitimizing" them. As for Chirac and Merkel -- I don't give a rats arse if they are angry at the U.S. If it wasn't for the U.S.'s willingness to stand up to regimes that are fully prepared and committed to do everything in their power to dominate the world, neither of those countries would be what they are today. What a bunch of whiny pantywaists.
No, this from the direct descendants of Hitler. Germany should have been eradicated as a country for what they brought upon the world in World War II.