[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.

[albertabound]

It is my opinion that what we and I emphasize "we' are dealing with is a clash of cultures which transcends geographic boundaries.It is more a liberal verses conservative battle and not anti-Americanism. Due to America's position in world affairs Yanks are the obvious target for liberals to attack.The upside is that these libs are getting worried and are lashing out. Stay the course and keep cool "we" are winning but the battle will take time and GWB is the man.

[winner3000]

There's a vicious circle going on here. The European media is 100% anti-American, causing the people to get brainwashed. Once that happens, the media becomes even more anti-American because that's what the people want to see.