[O.C. - Old Cracker]

More and more, with each passing day, America stands alone. I think it is great! Perhaps this is what we need to rally around the flag and defend this great land. Screw the rest of the world if they don't see things our way!

[laconic]

Watch the Germans in the documentaries on the 1948 Berlin Airlift which saved their parents and granparents from starvation. They weren't cussin' at the American pilots risking (and many losing) their lives to fly food to Berlin. They were begging for any crumb they could get from the US taxpayer and the pilots with the courage to fly them in.

[onedoug]

Visit Israel.

[Mike K]

Vaughn found himself repeatedly reaching for the same comeback. Three totemic words ...

My initial thought of what his response might be was rather vulgar but it fit.

I've had my fill of "intelligent" Europens telling me that Americans are ingnorant in world politics. They don't seem to undersatnd that we set the pace and they follow. From cabbies to CEO's, they're all so ... intelligent. This doesn't include many in the UK, who by and large have the same thought processes that we do.

[EBUCK]

Boycott Europe entirely. Let them defend themselves, feed themselves, make their own cars-airplane....we don't need them in the least.

[Constantine XIII]

We could always do like the Swiss, take our toys, and go home. Keep a big honking military/militia to scare off the coyotes, and make lots of knives and CHEESE! :oP

[Alamo-Girl]

I can't help but wonder if this is one of those Bush/Rove - misunderstimating strategeries.

After all, the net result is we will spend less money in the U.N. and N.A.T.O. and on overseas military installations and peacekeeping missions - they'll have less influence on U.S. politics and we'll be more secure and more influential in the countries that have huge natural resources that can benefit our economy. Hmmmm....

[AdamSelene235]

Oh man, they posted "Tips for blending in".

Here's my favorite shirt for travel.

[syriacus]

'America is the devil.'

Funny.

I though Saddam's the one with the name that means essentially the same thing as Satan. (Opposer)

[Shermy]

A lot of it has to do with Bush's decision to go to the UN, and delaying the war. Everyday we are bombarded with "news" that tacitly projects the UN as a fair and reasonable institution, or one that must be listened to regardless, rather than just another forum for countries, like France, to impose their political and monetary interests. American govt. should be inducing the Euro press, for example a self-examination of those countries own monetary interests tied to Saddam, but this has not occured. Even here, why is the govt. putting forward Iraqi voices supporting the removal of Saddam?

Also the French and Germans are whipping up anti-Americanism to scare up support for their version of a extremely centralized EU. for example, yelling about the American "hyper-power" and the need for "Europe" to "balance" America. The Euro press, and our press for the most part, does not examine the interests, lies, and motives behind various Euro positions. Rather, the affect is to treat "European" opinions as monolithic, reasoned (in the american sense of being just), and "wise." Indeed there is about zero examination of Euro interests, except recently to label Eastern European govt. opinions as subservient to the US, French and German opinions as better.

For the most part American analysts of the situation ignore various Euro motives, prefering broadstroke interpretations about "Atlanticism" and the like. US Academia is totally out of the loop, or waiting for the time when public cares less about foreign policy issues so they can make their wordy, ignorant analyses without much debate. Tell me, how many academics have you seen on TV discussing anything about Europe and their interests? Zero.

The anti-Americanism will increase. The American media for the most part privileges anti-American biases as presumptively true and reasoned. Our govt. is clueless (preime example - Turkey), and anti-Americanism is profitable to various European interests.

[Argus]

When Tony Vitanza, 42, of Fort Worth unleashed his Texas accent on a shopkeeper in Belgium, she immediately asked what state he was from. "I made sure to tell her I didn't vote for Bush," says Vitanza, a flight attendant who was careful to pluck all the pins off his jacket before heading outdoors.

Hey Tony, do us a favor and stay over there.

[nickcarraway]

Sometimes the complaints left him speechless, like the time he was told " 'America had no culture' by a kid wearing a Kobe Bryant T-shirt and listening to rapper DMX."

I have seen this so often. People who ``hate the U.S.'' but can't get enough of the culture and products.

[thinktwice]

Meanwhile, American Clintonites -- the anti-war demonstrating treasonists -- insult America, and especially those Americans serving in our military.

Thank God George W. Bush is President, and may God fortify his courage to press on against terrorists inside and outside our country.

[valkyrieanne]

How not to be an "ugly american..."

[lonewacko_dot_com]

This points out that the U.S., and specifically the WOT, needs a strong PR component, which it obviously isn't getting currently.

[Happygal]

Yes, there is an amount of 'anti-Americanism' in Europe. Or rather, an amount of dissatisfaction for the Republican administration.

But I'd also profer that there is a similar voice of dissent within the US own borders - so therefore to mark EVERYONE in Europe as anti-American, is not fair, and inaccurate.

Remember the media reporting on this 'rampant anti-Americanism' are the very same people who repeatedly bash the Bush Administration. It suits their very purpose to report 'anti-Americanism' in Europe and blame it all on Dubya.

Yes, there is quite an opposition to the war on Iraq. But for everyone I who argues against action in Iraq with me, I find a (probably less vocal) person who supports the action of the USA and Britain.

I'm Irish, therefore European. I'm not anti-American. It would be wrong to paint the entire citizenry of Europe with the one brush, just because of the bad experience a person had with a taxi-driver.

I had my own bad experience with a taxi-driver in New York, last time I was there. You didn't find me whining to the media about it.

Just my opinion.

[vikingcelt]

I've still got a score to settle in Dingle, Ireland. Dick Mack's Pub to be precise where we were viciously attacked for being Americans on September 22, 2001. If the stock market ever rebounds and (therefore) my fortunes improve, I've got a free trip for a couple of ex-military American men who are willing to go over there and kick some decadent Eurotrash ass...all expenses paid.

[Redleg Duke]

Like someone told me today,

"Talk about irony...The French rebuking us for arrogance and the Germans lecturing us about militarism!"

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

I'm heading to Europe in a few months. We'll see if any of these wannabe tough guys try some of these stunts with me. The scene where Joe Pesci stabs the guy at the bar with a pen in Casino comes to mind...

[zook]

I get to be in Beijing in about a month. Wonder if I'll get any crap over there.

[Servant of the Nine]

Any American Tourist in Germany or France right now needs to be lynched, if not there, then when the get home.
Both countries depend heavilly on Tourism.

So9