[MadIvan]

I can only say to this well crafted editorial - Bravo! Bravo!

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[moodyskeptic]

Yes, cheers to Gove. I'm printing this for some tasty phrases. I'll co-opt them as is my wont.

[Bahbah]

"It is a myth that America is a trigger-happy cowboy state over-eager to throw its weight around, a myth that America seeks to use its undoubted military power to establish an exploitative empire, and a myth that America thrives by impoverishing and oppressing other nations."

Quite.

[Iowa Granny]

In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.

Well, My Goodness. There's nothing quite like just laying it on the table, is there?

[Republic of Texas]

Wow. I mean...well...wow.

[Travis McGee]

PING!

[okie01]

Thank you for the post, Ivan.

Thank you, very much.

Believe I'll send this to my Brit son-in-law, who will appreciate it even more than I, perhaps.

[Cicero]

Excellent. I'm sending it to my British son-in-law as well.

[Bonaparte]

The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing

[HanneyBean]

Ivan,
Just how much heat is Blair taking in Britain because of his stance on the Iraq issue?
I had always assumed he was a MAJOR socialist pantywaist - a counterpart to our own Bubba- but I have to tell you that he's impressed me mightily since 9-11.

[DB]

BIG Bump!

[Capriole]

Well, gang, if you like the article so much, tell the author. I did.

[AFreeBird]

BUMP!

[Pokey78]

BTTT

[Billthedrill]

The dark recess of the soul to which the author alludes is nothing more than that it is profoundly satisfying to hate, so much so that the hatred tends to remain long after its cause is forgotten or ameliorated, if it were ever sound in the first place. It is not restricted to the political left, but when all else is drained from a body politic hatred is all that remains to define it, and at the moment hatred is, in fact, the left's sole remaining defining characteristic.

[Chu Gary]

In the l700's, the French (bless their little pea brains) actually had a fine idea of how to deal with the elitists. For those of you who are history-challenged, it was called the guillotine. Too bad Hillary and Billary weren't French and prominent in politics then!

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Someone should do an online poll -

Who do you think hates America the most?
A) Radical Muslims
B) European Leftists
C) American Leftists

Personally, I would vote (C).

[TheMole]

The only thing wrong with this article is the title. The phrase "socialism of fools" is redundant, since socialism in adults is itself evidence of cognitive deficiency. Otherwise it's an excellent piece, and the point that today's anti-Americanism serves the same function that anti-semitism served in the past is particularly well taken. That does bring up another complication, however. Anti-semitism, often thinly disguised as "ant-Zionism", is becoming respectable again on the left, and many European leftists regard an excess of Jewish influence as being one of the things they don't like about the United States.