Perhaps you would like to show where in that article your explicitly quoted title comes from?
“Partly, I suspect that this extraordinary new perception of America as a vile source of human rights abuse and repression comes from London-based Americans, one of whom told me she had moved to Britain to escape George Bush’s abuses. Partly, and more legitimately, it comes from ill-judged decisions by the administration, such as the refusal to call the Guantanamo Bay captives “prisoners of war,” which happens to be what they are.”
And speaking for myself, my jaundiced view of successive American governments (note, govts, not america or americans)attitude to the human rights of non americans comes from observing their actions on the world stage for the past 40 years, it’s not new.
Don’t need no scurvy yankee traitors to incite me.
And yes, I guess most informed people here distrust and fear Bush, for good bloody reasons not out of some mythical hatred or bias.
We still love Clinton to death though. It’s just trigger-happy, draft dodging, swaggering, lying bullies we’re not that keen on.
We (as in me and people i know) don’t trust him, and we fear what the USA on the world stage is becoming on his watch and we resent the hell out of the idea that the USA is above the law, able to attack whoever it pleases on whatever pre-emptive self-defence pretext will float long enough to get the bullets flying.
We hate his disregard for international law and we hate the sheer bloody arrogance of the Project for the New American Century. And we hate the hypocritical use of world trade agreements to protect american industries while forcing open foreign markets. I could go on and on.
All perfectly rational, not irrational hatred. We get no bloody say in what he does yet we have to live with the results. Even our own govt ignored overwhelming pre-war opinion to drag us in on his sordid little piece of geo-political warmongering. What else can we do but hate?
Yet we like americans and like some TV and films. No contradiction there.
