Doug wrote: > Read my post again. It's a complaint that that kind of incendiary trolling has no >place on the PDML. If I want a reminder >that many people don't like America or >Americans, I have plenty other places to find it.
I do agree that this has nothing to do on this list. However, I do find it necessary object to the notion that being against the policy of George W. Bush and his administration is the same as being anti-american. The fact is, indipendent whether one likes it or not, Bush is doing more damage to the US image and creating more anti-american feelings that anyone else. It may be that Bush's rethoric is well received in his home country but it isn't understood elsewhere and is downright scary for most. The paranoid regime in North Korea promtly restarted they aborted atomic weapon program after Bush declared that he had right to attack anyone after his own choosing on a first strike basis with weapons of mass destruction. Also, we should not forget that this is an international list and that our america-eurocentric view of the 9/11 incident may not have the same meaning in the rest of the world. For a certain latin american conutry 9/11 is the date the CIA got their legally elected president shot and replaced by a dictator who killed far more people than multiple 9/11 incidents put together. The point is that many have reason for promoting a different world-view that most of us westernes have. Also, the degree of anti-americanism is mostly defined by the action and signals sent out by the US administration. The latter is in the hands of you americans and not us sitting elsewhere. P�l
