# Are there any prominent activists or political critics on the far left that are generally pro-US or

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**Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-prominent-activists-or-political-critics-on-the-far-left-that-are-generally-pro-us-or/638515/21 "2012-11-11T01:59:41Z")

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I will just add that back when I actually ran in generally far-left circles back during the Clinton years, people seemed to be more generally anti-Western than opposed to US policies specifically. For example, people were angry about a lot of the NATO involvement in the Balkans and the UN-led sanctions on Iraq. It wasn’t really until 9/11 when the US started getting involved in foreign adventures that the rest of the West (mostly) did not participate in that the US became the sole target of scorn.

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