Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- I remember his analyses of the Gulf War and how I thought �it�s been a
long way down.�� Didn�t realize he still
had so much further to plummet: �The United States is a country with a
record at home and abroad that arouses criticism and indignation and, in some
cases, rightly so: Vietnam, Nicaragua, the neglect of Palestinian rights, Cuba,
the grotesque irresponsibility of its gun laws and its media, the insidious
role of religion, and money in public life, to name but a few. Yet such
criticism has to be matched, and often is not, by a recognition of what that
country means and will mean for the world as a whole. �Too much discussion of the United
States, in Western Europe as much as elsewhere, is guided by a set of lazy
prejudices, condescending in continental Europe, more fetid (in Left and Right
variants) in the British case, demagogic and rancorous without proportion in
much of the Third World. �For all its faults, the United States
is, to date, the most prosperous country in human history, the one to which
many people, possibly half of the world, would like to emigrate to and work,
whose vitality in a range of fields from music to medicine outstrips all
others. In regard to many issues, gender and immigration among them, it has a
record that puts much of Europe to shame. �Much has been made, especially in recent
days, of American militarism and belligerency: this is, the discourse of cowboy
culture aside, a myth. No other major country has a record as restrained as the
United States: it had to be dragged into world war in 1941, as it was dragged
into Bosnia in 1995. �Sneering at American aggression comes
strangely from other countries, given their record in modern times: Britain and
France, who trampled over half of Asia and Africa, Russia and China, not to
mention Germany, Italy and Japan.� http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,552759,00.html
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