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SF Examiner Runs Meaningful Article on U.S. Foreign Policy!
The SF Examiner, to its credit, has run a pretty realistic article on the history of U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan.
Why they hate us so
From Examiner Staff and wire reports
If last Tuesday's attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center serves as a clarion call to the Bush administration to rid the world of terrorism, it might also be a wake-up call to Americans as to why they are disliked and how the United States created those now-despised terrorists.
There is no shortage of reasons in much of the world to dislike the United States. From European capitals to the coca fields of South America and the assembly lines of Southeast Asia, the nation can appear arrogant and selfishly fixated on its own politics and interests.
Its unparalleled power makes it a lightning rod for a host of grievances brought by allies, adversaries and outright enemies.
Ghoulish scenes of Palestinians dancing and rejoicing over Tuesday's mass slaughter in New York and Washington are only the most extreme and recent public expression of anti-Americanism -- or at least a wariness of American power -- that has followed the United States' rise as a superpower, through conflicts in the Cold War and since.
Beneath the sorrow and dismay voiced abroad this week over the deadly attacks on American cities is an undercurrent of rebuke from critics who hope that the devastation will temper the superpower's sense that it can dictate to everyone else. For much of the world, America's grief is also its comeuppance.
"People are really deeply shocked by the doomsday-like pictures," said Mirjana Bobic, a popular author and head of cultural programming on Serbian state television in Yugoslavia. "But you know, every stick has two ends, and if you are beating others you should expect a boomerang effect."
"It's like shock therapy for the United States, not to be too arrogant," said Bagus Prasetyo, 23, who works for South Korean carmaker Hyundai in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Full Text at http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.hatred.0917w
From Examiner Staff and wire reports
If last Tuesday's attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center serves as a clarion call to the Bush administration to rid the world of terrorism, it might also be a wake-up call to Americans as to why they are disliked and how the United States created those now-despised terrorists.
There is no shortage of reasons in much of the world to dislike the United States. From European capitals to the coca fields of South America and the assembly lines of Southeast Asia, the nation can appear arrogant and selfishly fixated on its own politics and interests.
Its unparalleled power makes it a lightning rod for a host of grievances brought by allies, adversaries and outright enemies.
Ghoulish scenes of Palestinians dancing and rejoicing over Tuesday's mass slaughter in New York and Washington are only the most extreme and recent public expression of anti-Americanism -- or at least a wariness of American power -- that has followed the United States' rise as a superpower, through conflicts in the Cold War and since.
Beneath the sorrow and dismay voiced abroad this week over the deadly attacks on American cities is an undercurrent of rebuke from critics who hope that the devastation will temper the superpower's sense that it can dictate to everyone else. For much of the world, America's grief is also its comeuppance.
"People are really deeply shocked by the doomsday-like pictures," said Mirjana Bobic, a popular author and head of cultural programming on Serbian state television in Yugoslavia. "But you know, every stick has two ends, and if you are beating others you should expect a boomerang effect."
"It's like shock therapy for the United States, not to be too arrogant," said Bagus Prasetyo, 23, who works for South Korean carmaker Hyundai in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Full Text at http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.hatred.0917w
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§Another Reichstag Fire
The Examiner has been running war-mongering headlines, including one foul-language headline, for the past 2 weeks. The peace movement is so strong in San Francisco that they felt they had to come up with this trash. The facts are now very obvious: This was an inside job. Any advance notice means it was an inside job. From Willie Brown's 8-hour notice, before the plane crash-bombings, to the government's many admissions of advance notice, means the US was prepared for this whole scene. That means it was an inside job. King George the Second is a CIA man and an oil man. He was also known as a serial killer in Texas because he executed a human being about once every two weeks. On the hijacked Pennsylvania plane, one person called her family and told that the hijackers were Americans. The beneficiaries of this war hysteria are the US war machine and its junior partner, Israel. It is time the peace community come out loudly and clearly stating No Blood For Oil! No More Genocide In Our Name! This is another Reichstag Fire!
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