Post-Anti-Americanism (The World Pities America MASSIVE BARF ALERT)

Newsweek ^ | 8/11/2010 | Howard Fineman

[Dallas59]

You can still buy an American newspaper at the kiosk in Rome’s Piazza Colonna, but you have to ask the lady behind the counter. She turns from the window, paws through a stack on the floor, and produces an International Herald Tribune, holding it at arm’s length like a day-old fish. It’s the same availability and tone in Venice, the Greek islands, and Istanbul. The implicit question in the transaction is always the same: why would you want to read that thing about that place at this time?

And when you read about America in European newspapers, what you are likely to find is a tone bordering on pity. The U.S. is depicted as a fraying empire of obesity, ignorance, debt, gridlock, stagnation, and mindless war. Sure, the iPad is cool, but it is evidence of what America was, not what it will be again. The stories are not angry, accusatory, or even ideological. It’s worse: they are condescendingly elegiac.

[sergeantdave]

I wonder if the poodle Fineman can dance on the saloon floor when bullets are fired at his feet.

[KC_Lion]

"as a fraying empire of obesity, ignorance, debt, gridlock, stagnation, and mindless war"

Yikes they are right, we don't want to become just like them!!!

I Think it was Eisenhower how said that he thought the Europeans Liked War because they have had so many. They are last people who need to be Lecturing us on War.

Heck Research the 30 years war, 80 years war, King Phillips War, War of Spanish Secession, Seven Years War, the Wars of Napoleon and that was in a 150 year span! And those are just off the top of my head!

This era of "peace" is relatively rare in European History

[E8crossE8]

Howard Fineman has for several years been a regular guest on Keith Olbermonster's offensive propaganda program. I regard Fineman with the utmost contempt. I have no respect whatsoever for Fineman, nor do I trust his judgement in assessing anything under the sun.

[Publius6961]

Pity?

Cut U.S. visas to zero, Immigrant, Student, Tourist, Transit, Refugee, Compassionate, ALL visas.

Then sit back with a smirk and enjoy their pity...