You Stupid Yanks!

Opinion Journal ^ | 02/22/2002 | RAYMOND SOKOLOV

[Pokey78]

It takes targeting terror, apparently, to make Americans the target of full-bore anti-Americanism. We've all read a lot about this kind of hostility in recent weeks--America as demon of the world, as portrayed in, say, Le Monde and the Guardian. I have my own tale to tell, much closer to home.

[Pokey78]

Ping

[pgkdan]

Losers envy winners

Good post...every word of it the truth...and those words sum it all up.

[CyberAnt]

They don't hate us because we have more than they have - this is way off - and this guy should have stuck to art and leisure topics.

[BoldlyGoingNowhere]

My thoughts exactly. I've been reading so much lately how the foreign athletes at the Olympics can't stand our cheerleader-ish USA chants and think that we're way too full of ourselves. They will never understand that we love our country and support each other through the good and the bad.

sure makes you happy to live where you live doesn't it?

[Southack]

Yes, the failed European cafe psuedo-intellectuals and the medieval Middle-Eastern cultures hate us because of our wealth and success. They hate our inventiveness and they hate our military dominance. This is because they do NOT represent innocent young cultures capable of wonder and amazement at achievement. No, they represent mature, failed societies that loathe themselves for their lack of intellectual, scientific, military, and monetary progress - almost as much as they hate us for having created our own success in ALL of those areas by ignoring their close-minded views and adapting/adopting our own unique system.

[The_Expatriate]

After saving Europeans from themselves in two world wars and protecting them from Soviet invasion...

You mean, after intervening in a European war in which US interests were not at stake, thereby upsetting a stalemate that would in all likelihood have produced a negotiated peace much sooner and sowing the seeds for the next world war, where American support and military action resulted in an Eastern Europe dominated by the Soviet Union, then requiring the US to help some of its allies fend off a former ally...

"Hey, Pandora, having trouble getting that lid open? Here, let Uncle Sam help..."

[Mind-numbed Robot]

They have the benefit of $B's from natural resources that they did not even have to know how to exploit. We did it for them, and they profited. They recognize themselves for their own failures, therefore they loathe themselves and must hate the West even more than themselves if their ego is to be satisfied.

This also describes many rich Americans who inherited the wealth of their hardworking, entrepreneuraial parents and grandparents and who embrace the leftists politics as a way of being worthwhile by proxy, spending other peoples money to assuage their guilt.

[edwin hubble]

To clarify your remarks in your first sentence of reply#8..

Which of the two World Wars are you referring to as the intervention in which our interests were not at stake?

[samtheman]

The_Expatriate was referring to WWI. There is a theory out there that if the USA had stayed out of the war, there would have been no clear victor and a much fairer negotiated settlement, a more prosperous post-war period for Germany and no chance for Hitler to rise from the ashes of a boot-on-the-neck "peace treaty". I do think there's something to the theory. Certainly the bad guys in WWI in my opinion were not particulary the Germans but the upper-classes in all European countries, the aristocrats who ran that horrible butcher-shop of a war and sent all their young men into stupid battles in trench warfare to even out lines on maps. The cause of WWI was a failed social system in Europe (the aristocratic system) and it's probably true that the USA should have stayed out and let the whole house of cards collapse. On the other hand, our reasons for entering were noble enough. We were assisting our allies. They begged for our help and we provided it. As we did again in the 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s. Yes, it might be true that Wilson should have been wiser and stayed out... but that's for us to say, not the scumbag europansies of England and France... whose bacon we keep pulling of the fire with no prospect of gratitude from them at all.

[M. Thatcher]

Actually, it's dead-on accurate.

[wafflehouse]

that smacks of sarcasm, methinks

[My Identity]

Which of the two World Wars are you referring to as the intervention in which our interests were not at stake?

Don't bother with The_Expatriate. He has perfect knowledge of alternate universes. You'll never win an argument. LOL

[edwin hubble]

I am reminded of Asimov's psycho-history: Following causal threads across centuries.

Well...
No U.S. involvement in WWI
-->Stalemate in WWI
--> negotiated peace in 1918 with no oppressive terms on Germany
--> no WWII.
---> strong Germany in 1940's and 50's
---> no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe in 1940's -80's.

The crystal ball, however, begins to get a little fuzzy by the 1980's

Would a strong Germany and stronger USSR have faced off in the late 40's? It gets fuzzy.

[My Identity]

that smacks of sarcasm, methinks

Sarcasm requires thought. Smacks of smirk, more like it.

[Jagdgewehr]

daltryMac - February 20th, 2002