[meandog]

Jealosy?

[nravoter]

"Why do people attack Americans?" asks Tiny Waslandek, a social worker in Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Because they have a big, big mouth and they mind everybody's business."

Oh, yeah, as opposed to people like our friend Tiny here, who don't insult others, and keep their opinions to themselves.

[Hazzardgate]

They crap on America, then go eat lunch at McDonalds, catch a matinee screening of Star Wars, then go home and watch Friends while drinking Bud and smoking Marlboro Lights. Yup, they hate America alright!

[moyden]

As Europe grows more socialist and anti-Christian, they will hate the U.S. no matter what we do.

[Saundra Duffy]

Yawn.

[DrDavid]

"Around the world, from Western Europe to the Far East, many see the United States as arrogant, hypocritical, self-absorbed, self-indulgent and contemptuous of others," Peterson says...

I think one of the reasons the rest of the world hates us, is that they read our Press and believe it! This quote describes the US Press more than the US People.

[desertcry]

Forget Europe, they are the past. Build the Americas(from Alaska to Argentina), and Asia, they are the future. The Europeans are green with envy with the USA, they know they are being left behind. Hasta La Vista Baby!

[desertcry]

Yes, most europeans were feeling gladness, and warmth after 9.11.01. Most of them celebrated that at last America the lone Super Power, was brought down to their size, so they thought.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"Why do people attack Americans?" asks Tiny Waslandek, a social worker in Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Because they have a big, big mouth and they mind everybody's business."

Most of this article is a load of elitist crap. Most Europeans don't even know what American foreign policy is. Under Clinton, we didn't even know.

The man quoted above doesn't even realize that most Americans couldn't find Amsterdam on a map, we care so little about them.

[NeoCaveman]

Why?

1. Jealousy of our economic growth
2. Ungreatful for all the defense we still provide them.
3. We believe in national soverignty while the Continent has never had a good experience with it on their own. Heck, France is on its Fifth Republic in 200 or so years.

[NeoCaveman]

"My sense is that much of the rampant anti-Americanism we see now is very much linked to a war with Iraq and the Israel-Palestine issue," says Mary Kaldor, a London-based scholar on international relations.

This is actually kind of close to the truth. I think a lot of their animosity to us has to do with their animosity towards Israel.

[rb22982]

Meanwhile, in an April poll for the Council on Foreign Relations, based in Washington, Europeans proved highly critical of Bush and what they label his unilateral approach to foreign policy: 85% of Germans, 80% of French, 73% of Britons and 68% of Italians said they believed that the United States is acting in its own interest in the war on terrorism.

No sh*t shirlock. That's the reason we have countries in the first place is to look out for the interests of its own citizens. I'd say probably 99% of americans believe the US is acting in its own interests in the war on terrorism.

[GSWarrior]

They might hate us, but I bet they love our money and foreign aid.

[B Knotts]

So a bunch of socialist anti-Semites think we're arrogant?

Psht.

Something about a sliver and a plank come to mind.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

I *so* very much wanted to jump in and insult the smarmy bastards today when I saw this on Yahoo, but as it turns out it was moving day in the office and I had no chance at lunch. These people are effing hypocrits to the core, they wanna talk about foreign policy? No one's 'foreign policy' was worse in the last 100 years or so then the Europeans. We could spend the rest of the week just going over the gems these turkeys laid out and their famous exploits against first the Nazis, then the Soviets, then the Iraqis in the Gulf War, and lately in Afghanistan.

In every case, they were weak and wanted to capitulate...oh, and how about the 'Oh, somebody, please DO something' policy regarding the Serbs just a few years ago?? Let's not forget these are the same clowns who's 'foreign policy' included paying off ransoms to the Abu Sayyaf so that they could hire more terrorists, buy more guns, and kill more Filipinos and Americans. Yeah, great one there Europe, you guys are SO very much the center of the 'foreign policy' expertise universe.

What's funny in all of this, as soon as things start to go swimmingly for the US in Iraq, they'll all want in on the action, just like Afghanistan. It was hilarious to watch the dumbsh!ts waffle like an eggo over sending troops to fight the Taliban but as soon as Mazar fell, they were tripping over themselves to get the troops in as fast as they could to get some glory...the French, the Germans, the Canadians...that's pretty much what they did and it will happen all over again in Iraq, mark my words.

[c-b 1]

There is probably some jealosy involved, but I noticed two organizations mentioned in the article which I suspect have been out there fanning the flames. The Institute for Global Governance, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I say Who Cares What Europeans Think?

[Vanman]

85% of Germans, 80% of French, 73% of Britons and 68% of Italians said they believed that the United States is acting in its own interest in the war on terrorism.

Well, after all it was OUR BUILDINGS that were flown into, not any of their's!!!

It doesnt take a brain surgeon to figure out that we are in this alone....like usual.

[Kozak]

Why do people attack Americans?" asks Tiny Waslandek, a social worker in Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Because they have a big, big mouth and they mind everybody's business."</I.

We should mind our OWN buisness from now on. ONLY those things in our interest should be pursued, and with a single minded intensity. And F##K the rest of the world.

[The Iguana]

Ah...another nice flame bait thread.

Let me add my own bit of combustion:

Dear Europe: If you don't like it, start pulling your own geopolitical weight. Otherwise, kindly drop dead.

[1Old Pro]

jealosy for sure