Waging a War on Anti-Americanism

It hit me quite some time ago that on just about every account where Americans are criticized, the accusers themselves are guilty of the same thing or guilty of *isolating* Americans in a world where Americans should be *included*. (European and Canadian Bias under the Microscope)

My inspiration for this post: (Why do people worldwide increasingly continue to hate America?)

Let’s start with our overall “genocidal behaviors”:

One German citizen (Robin Hood Im Schwarzwald) wrote in his blog a piece that rang so true for me:

Some Europeans display a moral superiority that is inconsistent with reality. However, that does not stop leftists from protesting in the streets about no-blood-for-oil, but when is the last time you see anything of consequence protesting the Chinese, Iranians, Radical Islam, or any other despotic regime? I would guess almost never! Even so that doesn’t stop leftists or cultural elites from perpetuating stereotypes of Americans and America.

Hat Tip: Schwarzwald

Anti-Americans will tell you that America has been the only evil and persists to be the only evil. What Anti-Americans conveniently fail to include or acknowledge is the following:

• The Congo Civil War in Africa leaving 3.8 million dead (just as many deaths as WWI). Currently, there are approximately 45,000 deaths taking place each month as reported in the UK.
• Also in Africa, we have poverty, starvation, rape, AIDS infection, state tyranny and corruption, and such human-rights abominations as slavery, female genital mutilation, and the use of children as soldiers and prostitutes.
• The Rape of Nanking: (at least 369,366 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war were slaughtered by the invading troops. An estimated 80,000 women and girls were raped; many of them were then mutilated or murdered. Thousands of victims were beheaded, burned, bayoneted, buried alive, or disemboweled. To this day the Japanese government has refused to apologize for these and other World War II atrocities, and a significant sector of Japanese society denies that they took place at all.)
• The War between Ethiopia and Eritrea (leaving tens and thousands killed)
• Joseph Stalin who killed approximately 20 million, including up to 14.5 million needlessly starved to death. At least one million executed for political “offenses”. At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the ‘Gulag Archipelago’ never returning alive. Other estimates place the number of deported at 28 million, including 18 million sent to the ‘Gulag’.
• Mao Tse-Tung who was responsible for 14 to 20 million deaths from starvation during the ‘Great Leap Forward’. Tens of thousands killed and millions of lives ruined during the ‘Cultural Revolution’.
• The 20,000 Cubans tortured and executed by Fidel Castro
• How China’s support for the government of Sudan has slaughtered more than 1.5 million innocents
• The Holocaust that left 6 million Jews dead (although the number of actual deaths are debatable, a significant number of them were killed brutally and inhumanely).
• The result of Tibetan deaths under Chinese occupation up to 1988 alone: 1,207,387 deaths
• How about European colonialism in Africa, Polynesia, Asia, Australia, and in the Americas? Great Britain was imperialistic and was the world power back then, and a very violent power at that.
• What about Islamic Imperialism, Japanese Imperialism, Russian Imperialism, and Chinese Imperialism?
• Have we also forgotten the British contribution to torture at Abu Ghraib? Read this for the grusome details.
• And what about the Mongols, the Romans, the Ottomans, and the Nationalist Japanese?
• And then we’ve got Saddam Hussein accomplishing murders approaching two million, including between 150,000 and 340,000 Iraqi and between 450,000 and 730,000 Iranian combatants killed during the Iran-Iraq War. And it gets worse, read more here. Do torture chambers, mass graves, and imprisoned children ring a bell?
  

Another example of how our NATO “friends” are exercising blatantly obvious bias concerning their judgment of the US is noted in this article, “What should enrage every decent citizen is that the real torturers — from Zimbabwe to China, from Syria to North Korea — get a pass from the political left“.

From our ailing domestic left to overseas America haters, no one really cares about the fate of Mustapha the Murderer or Ahmed the Assassin. The lies told about Gitmo are meant to undercut U.S. foreign policy and embarrass America.

The Gitmo controversy is about many things, from jealousy of the United States and outrage that we refuse to fail, to residual anger that we won the Cold War and exploded the left’s great fantasy of a dictatorship of the intellectuals. But the one thing the protests aren’t about is human rights.

Read on to see that Anti-Americans in Europe and in Canada don’t mind violence, mass murder, and torture at all. In fact, they approve of it. So, what is it, then, that makes them dislike us so…..?

America is now the Superpower of the world. While it’s not something to be jealous of, one is to only assume jealousy — as we’re the country of the world’s obsession, and a lot of those countries that are pouting and shaking their fists at us are the same countries that either feel threatened by our imperialism or jealous because they once used to be the leaders of the world and they no longer have that power (especially Britain). So, by consistently pointing out our faults, we see that this is the only way these Anti-American countries can attempt to make us feel worthless. It’s a way of bullying us off of our “high and mighty” thrones. It seeks to humble us. It seeks to have us put our flags down. While some of the criticism directed at us IS note-worthy and merited, the convenient ignorance of other evils both past and present is clearly a sign that it’s not “evil” that Anti-Americanism is against. There’s something else. What else could that be? Again… jealousy?

Anti-Americanism has its roots in British and French inherited complexes when the United States stepped in to save Europe from Nazism. As former leading world powers the idea that they had been usurped was difficult for many to accept. This resentment took root as the United States began to dominate the world scene economically, politically and culturally.

Side note: When it says “we” saved Europe from Nazism, “we” is all those who weren’t a part of the Axis of Evil during that time.

Oh, the horror about Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib! Damn Americans! Hmm… funny how THIS gets overlooked…… Well, of course, it went “unconfirmed” because it never happened, right?

Hat Tip: David

With the index finger flapping away in disapproval, it never ceases to amaze me how many people from all over the world find that Americans are committing a genocide in Iraq. The war in Iraq, while I’m still not convinced it is a just war, I can tell you that it’s *not* a genocide. What is a Genocide? The deliberate, planned and systematic destruction of an *entire* ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. While I don’t support Bush, he is NOT another Hitler, rather, he’s a war criminal. There’s a difference. A BIG difference.

Number 2: Religious Fanaticism

Out of the majority of Americans that believe in God, within that group exists Christian Fanaticism. Because of this, Americans are seen as the biggest evil in the world. I call these people the “thou-shall-notters” (not any different from the Radical Left, mind you). They are on their high horse preaching to the world about how we should ‘be’ and not ‘be’ simultaneously being in denial of their own immorality. However, praise, support, and tolerance is, without question, extended to Islamic Fanaticism.

We can see this example here.

Nadia Eweida, who worked for British Airways, came to work wearing a necklace with a little cross on it.

Nadia Eweida (55), a Coptic Christian whose father is Egyptian and mother English, working for seven years at British Airways as a luggage inspector, was suspended from work for two weeks without pay because of wearing a cross.

The airline’s uniform code states that staff must not wear visible jewellery or other ‘adornments’ while on duty without permission from management. It makes exceptions for Muslim and Sikh minorities by allowing them to wear hijabs and turbans.

Hat Tip: Karin Quade

Does anyone else not find this hypocritical? Here we have an example of the elitists condemning the cross, but making exceptions for Islamofascism? Very interesting. You can find another juicy example of that here: “British Muslim ‘bullied’ for converting to Christianity“.

Yet another telling example from the History News Network:

During anti-war demonstrations in Britain left-wing marchers have unashamedly waved banners defending known terrorists, shouted abuse at American tourists and British pro-American supporters and described George Bush in terms usually reserved for serial killers. Banners decrying the attacks of 9/11 were nowhere to be seen. When Daniel Pearl was murdered there was no outcry from the left in Britain. Instead, leftist and liberal commentators concentrated their critical faculties on the treatment of Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at Gauntanamo.

We can see here that the Anti-American British like Islamic Fanaticism. Anti-Americanism blindly encourages and supports Islamofascism and their violent ways such as burning cars, burning embassies, attacks against the police, gang rapes of Infidel girls, wife beating, honor killings, the Madrid bombings, and last but not least the London bombings. Well, one can argue that the British didn’t like it happening to them, but at least we can safely say that Islamofascism is considered “OK” and embraced in Europe and in Canada.

Let’s take a look at Canada. She claims to be the “country of peace” and strongly (flapping the index finger) AGAINST the death penalty. …..That was until 9-11.

But of course there’s no hypocrisy in being pro-peace and against the death penalty, unless… death targets the RIGHT group.

Anti-American Canadians say, “We share common cause with the Islamic Terrorists“.

“Far from being unreasonable fanatics, the terrorists fight for the same things we do. We have a common enemy.”

The common enemy the Canadians and the Islamic Terrorists share is America. Canadian Kevin Potvin shared the following after 9-11:

“When I saw the first tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside me that said, “Yeah!” When the second tower came down the same way, that little voice said, “Beautiful!” When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air”.

And he’s not the only Canadian that felt this way. By several onlookers, Anti-American Canadians were visibly seen cheering wildly following the terrorists attacks. Examples of this very happy day in Canada can be seen if you look at my 9-11 tags here on my blog.

While Christian Fanaticism can be oppressive, violent, xenophobic, uneducated, arrogant, and is associated with Neo-Conservatism, — Anti-Americanism takes sides with the MORE oppressive, xenophobic, uneducated, arrogant, and politically extreme such as “The Religion of Peace” (Islamofacsism) as we know it.

But anyway, let’s hope that Canada and Europe never have to find out what living under Sharia Holy Law is like.

It’s time to talk about how Americans are Stupid, Arrogant, Superficial and blind Patriotic Flag Wavers

In the Hudson Review, Bruce Bawer states the following:

I moved from the U.S. to Europe in 1998, and I’ve been drawing comparisons ever since. Living in turn in the Netherlands, where kids come out of high school able to speak four languages, where gay marriage is a non-issue, and where book-buying levels are the world’s highest, and in Norway, where a staggering percentage of people read three newspapers a day and where respect for learning is reflected even in Oslo place names (“Professor Aschehoug Square”; “Professor Birkeland Road”), I was tempted at one point to write a book lamenting Americans’ anti-intellectualism—their indifference to foreign languages, ignorance of history, indifference to academic achievement, susceptibility to vulgar religion and trash TV, and so forth. On point after point, I would argue, Europe had us beat.

Yet as my weeks in the Old World stretched into months and then years, my perceptions shifted. Yes, many Europeans were book lovers—but which country’s literature most engaged them? Many of them revered education—but to which country’s universities did they most wish to send their children? (Answer: the same country that performs the majority of the world’s scientific research and wins most of the Nobel Prizes.) Yes, American television was responsible for drivel like “The Ricki Lake Show”—but Europeans, I learned, watched this stuff just as eagerly as Americans did (only to turn around, of course, and mock it as a reflection of American boorishness). No, Europeans weren’t Bible-thumpers—but the Continent’s ever-growing Muslim population, I had come to realize, represented even more of a threat to pluralist democracy than fundamentalist Christians did in the U.S. And yes, more Europeans were multilingual—but then, if each of the fifty states had its own language, Americans would be multilingual, too. I’d marveled at Norwegians’ newspaper consumption; but what did they actually readin those newspapers?

See, it’s not about reading, in general, that makes you ’smart’, but more to do with WHAT you’re reading. If they’re reading nothing but misinformation and garbage, then they’ve got nothing to brag about, really.

Read on to see even more hypocrisy of the Anti-American Movement. You will also find out that at the end of the day, we’re actually not so different from one another.

Take a look at the top pet issues that the German media covers in the US by going to this blog entry written by David Kaspar. He comments on the German Anti-American Hypocrisy:

Interestingly enough - the same European elites who complain about the supposed black-white world view of the American friends themselves enthusiastically disseminate and consume a hyper-simplified view of the United States (characterized by the pet issues listed above) that largely ignores the complexity, diversity and sheer expanse of the American experience.

Thank you, David!

I’ve realized these days, after seeing my people being attacked online constantly and outside in the world visiting other countries, that I’m starting to become even more patriotic than I ever have. In the past, before I ever realized how religious and vile Anti-Americanism was, I sometimes caught myself being pessimistic, feeling that America was doomed, becoming a third world country, becoming stupider and more violent every day while living under the reign of a Bushy Administration and a faux Democracy while watching our freedoms get stripped away by the radical Left and Right wings. To any non-Americans reading this, you may not see, often enough, Americans online discussing how depressed we are as some of us would rather repress what’s going on to find that being in denial allows us to keep our sanity until it’s time to vote again.

However, I realize that it’s not so bad to be an American and not so bad to be living here either - especially after reading this - which only reinforces what I’ve been feeling over the past few months.

This experience was only part of a larger process of edification. Living in Europe, I gradually came to appreciate American virtues I’d always taken for granted, or even disdained—among them a lack of self-seriousness, a grasp of irony and self-deprecating humor, a friendly informality with strangers, an unashamed curiosity, an openness to new experience, an innate optimism, a willingness to think for oneself and speak one’s mind and question the accepted way of doing things. (One reason why Europeans view Americans as ignorant is that when we don’t know something, we’re more likely to admit it freely and ask questions.) While Americans, I saw, cherished liberty, Europeans tended to take it for granted or dismiss it as a naïve or cynical, and somehow vaguely embarrassing, American fiction. I found myself toting up words that begin with i: individuality, imagination, initiative, inventiveness, independence of mind. Americans, it seemed to me, were more likely to think for themselves and trust their own judgments, and less easily cowed by authorities or bossed around by “experts”; they believed in their own ability to make things better.

No wonder so many smart, ambitious young Europeans look for inspiration to the United States, which has a dynamism their own countries lack, and which communicates the idea that life can be an adventure and that there’s important, exciting work to be done. Reagan-style “morning in America” clichés may make some of us wince, but they reflect something genuine and valuable in the American air. Europeans may or may not have more of a “sense of history” than Americans do. In fact, in a recent study comparing students’ historical knowledge, the results were pretty much a draw, but America has something else that matters—a belief in the future.

(I am the type of person that asks A LOT of questions; some would say I’m ‘clinically curious’. Would this fly in Europe? My thirst for knowledge, I guess, would leave me being pegged as “ignorant”? In my opinion, that’s quite contradictory in that it’s the ignorant that DON’T as questions! Hmm.. I’d like to think the natives have a better perception of what Europe is all about as opposed to a “text book” that is ridden with distortions. This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.” –Chinese Proverb

It’s no wonder so many Anti-American Europeans are clueless about us. They don’t ASK! I’ve also noticed that Europeans that hate Americans tend to be way too serious and overly political - whereas on the opposite end of the extreme, Americans can be way too superficial and politically apathetic. Both extremes are nonproductive and definitely *not* healthy.)

While harsh Anti-American critics online try to bring my people down, I find myself much more bonded and united with my fellow citizens especially those that are balanced liberals. Surprisingly enough though, I find myself just as bonded with the balanced and sometimes self-righteous Republicans. I know that when I’m looking for understanding, that a Republican Conservative will always be there for me and fight against Anti-Americanism with me. Anti-Americanism tries to arrogantly push-and-shove their ways and dehumanize their target: Americans. However, when you’re trying to humble a person that’s already humble (admitting the faults of their own country), the humble begin to shift and can be quite defensive thereby turning quiet patriots into noisy ones.

Most Anti-Americans will tell you that Patriotism is defined as unconditionally accepting its leader and every crooked thing that a government may do. But I beg to differ. Patriotism for me is being proud of where you come from and being loyal to your country along WITH exercising the right to free speech and questioning our leaders when we see fit. That’s why I feel that you can be a patriot and be a liberal questioning the actions of the government at the same time. Now, I am still that same patriot except I feel more in tune with the “flag wavers”. This is NOT what Anti-Americanism wants. It want us to put our flags DOWN. It wants us to feel that we have NOTHING to be proud of and that we are all pieces of pissed-on shit deserving nothing more than death. What this is doing, however, is creating more pride among the American people. And with that, I will say the cliche saying in America: “You get more flies with honey than you do vinegar“. Anti-Americanism is Vinegar. Nobody’s listening.

I have yet to see any instances where Anti-Americanism has been constructive or useful. Anti-Americanism only sees the “white man”. (We can thank Michael Moore for that!) Anti-Americanism sees all 300 million Americans as lawless, obnoxious and retarded neo-con Christian Fundamentalists and tries to get this message out to them. But guess what? They aren’t the ones listening. Sadly and for the most part, it’s the curious, open-minded and educated liberals that are visiting your countries — that are (ironically) subjugated to your wild and woolly rants and occasional violent attacks. If we aren’t already “xenophobic”, that’s a great way to create it. Outside from the youth, most Americans are too busy to listen to your noise, anyway. We’ve already learned from the past (the 60’s), the origin of Neo-Conservatism. It sprung out as a backlash against the noisy Radical Leftists. We saw Liberals converting to Conservatism and Old Fashioned Conservatives moving the way of Neo-Conservatism. This is the result of both Anti-Americanism and Leftist Elitism when it gets loud and obnoxious.

“There is a belief and hope that if enough nations oppose America, the American people will realize what their government has been doing and will overthrow them. This hope is misguided, as anti-American actions are causing the opposite…” –Vexen Crabtree

And it’s all because Anti-Americanism cannot distinguish between the government and her people. Of course, anybody who’s Anti-American will be ignorant to the fact that we have an electoral voting system here and how truly unfair it is (hence the term, “faux Democracy). Is Bush’s 30% all-time-low approval rating any indication that we’re not all approving of him? You guys made the same mistake with the OBESE saying that “most of us” are yet you still haven’t accounted for the 240 million that *aren’t* obese. Anti-Americanism refuses to learn. Anti-Americanism’s blind hatred toward the entire US is no better than the blind patriotism of the “flag wavers”. Anti-Americanism does not want to be humble, educate itself or be reasonably balanced. Anti-Americanism is extreme in its very nature, and is terrorism and genocide without the weapons. As you guys become noisier and noisier, we become more proud and united.

In the ideal world, it would be NICE for us Americans to have a righteous country to look up to with admiration. However, you all lose your credibility and potential respect through your hypocrisy that can be cited all too clearly throughout MOST of your rants. Another nice example that I’m very, very familiar with is noted here:

Citing a South African restaurateur’s assertion that non-Americans “have an advantage over [Americans], because we know everything about you and you know nothing about us,” Hertsgaard tells us that this is a good point, but it’s not: non-Americans are always saying this to Americans, but when you poke around a bit, you almost invariably discover that what they “know” about America is very wide of the mark.

European and Canadian Anti-Americans are, if not equally ignorant, MORE ignorant than Americans. Having spoken with many Canadians and Europeans who hate people that they’ve never met, it has become painfully obvious.

Bruce Bawer continues…

America, in short, is a mess—a cultural wasteland, an economic nightmare, a political abomination, an international misfit, outlaw, parasite, and pariah. If Americans don’t know this already, it is, in Hertsgaard’s view, precisely because they are Americans: “Foreigners,” he proposes, “can see things about America that natives cannot. . . . Americans can learn from their perceptions, if we choose to.” What he fails to acknowledge, however, is that most foreigners never set foot in the United States, and that the things they think they know about it are consequently based not on first-hand experience but on school textbooks, books by people like Michael Moore, movies about spies and gangsters, “Ricki Lake,” “C.S.I.,” and, above all, the daily news reports in their own national media. What, one must therefore ask, are their media telling them? What aren’t they telling them? And what are the agendas of those doing the telling?

This is why I find those that subscribe to the Church of Anti-Americanism to be just as thick and as arrogant as Americans can be. Arrogance is the unwillingness to think for oneself and be the first to always prop themselves up onto a finger-pointing “thou shall not” soap-box. And my question is HOW is YOUR hypocrisy any different from the hypocrisy stemming from Christian Fundamentalists?

More hypocrisy:

Anti-Americanism in Britain has been blinded by its own propaganda which posits that America is run for the benefit of the rich at the expense of the poor – a judgment which ignores the reality of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. It also promotes the idea that American education and culture is pathetically myopic. A number of critics have confessed they have never visited the United States yet feel qualified to sit in judgment unaware that the educational provision of thirty or so American universities put Oxford and Cambridge to shame.

The left also seems to be unaware that the highest numbers of Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans. In the modern arts – including film, urban architecture, popular music and comedy – America is pre-eminent. The country hosts over 1700 symphony orchestras. In the more traditional forms such as the novel the achievements of leading American writers dwarf their European competitors. Accusations by the European left that Americans are a philistine people seem ridiculous when set beside their museum attendance, more than seven million visitors per year, and the quality of their literary, historical and political magazines. American freedom of the press is unequaled throughout the world and citizen access to government documents under its freedom of information laws is envied throughout Europe. American advances in medical science have saved millions of lives.

We are told we have nothing to be proud of. Could a “stupid and superficial” nation really be capable of the above? I’m not trying to hide behind the harsh fact that a significant number of Americans are stupid. What I’m trying to point out is that Anti-American “people” aren’t any ‘brighter a bulb’ than we are!

Anti-American sentiment does not engender any alternatives to what the American government poses in the way of foreign policy – its modus operandi is simply to spread the word that the United States is the moral equivalent to the Islamo-fascism it is trying to defeat. It recites its propaganda to summon up every American failure of the past fifty years without mentioning the nation’s successes.

What good does ignoring what we’ve done right do? Oh yeah… god forbid you should be more reasonable and balanced, you might have the unfortunate consequence of seeing the flaws in your own people and own country, no?

Anti-Americanism doesn’t practice what it preaches - nor is it willing to stray from it’s extremes….

In its hatred of the United States the European left find excuses for the wickedness of Saddam Hussein and the evil philosophy and cruelty of Muslim fundamentalist terror groups. Some pro-Arab intellectuals/celebrities like Vanessa Redgrave have even proposed that Al Qaeda prisoners stand as parliamentary candidates in the forthcoming British general election. Labour MP George Galloway, who was an admirer of Saddam Hussein, has disseminated the idea that Iraqi terrorists have every right to kill the “American invaders.”

Anti-Americanism has this impression that if you travel to the US, you will find the people dressed up in stars and stripes everywhere. You’ll have this impression that all the cars and homes here will be painted and/or decorated with the American Flag. You’ll be brainwashed to believe that Americans march the streets with their flags before and after work and on the weekends after watching, “Sex in the City”. And last, but not least, you’ll think that all we talk about and have on our minds is American Patriotism and “how better our country is than yours!“.

I am here to tell all Canadians, Europeans, Australians, and those from New Zealand, that your school books and media have painfully misguided you. I am currently living in San Antonio, Texas. I should be seeing this here, right? Where are all the flags? Where are all the alleged “stars and stripes”? I see them here, but not too much of it. I will say, however, that Americans will show their patriotism when they feel threatened.

A good example would be after 9-11 where we all bonded together. And hell… my husband and I even had the flag on our car! It’s like a way of saying, “We are one nation and we will have each other’s back - and not let those people get the best of us”. I think ALL countries (especially where Anti-Americanism is prevalent) misinterpreted this behavior post-9-11 as “arrogance”. You can also thank your media for sensationalizing that news, as well. But ’situational US flag decor’ is not arrogance or “blind patriotism”. Look at it this way: At least I know in the US, if someone’s house gets broken into and/or a crime is committed against a person in that neighborhood, the entire neighborhood becomes closer and unites. Acquaintances become friends. We’ve got each other’s back and look after one another. Generally speaking, if Americans feel threatened (with the exception of the radical liberals), we will unite… just like any other country would under the same circumstances. Hopefully, you’ll never have to find out.

In the case that you DO find Americans marching in the streets in ’stars and stripes’ attire loudly reciting the Star Spangled Banner, consider them mentally ill, and move on.

Stupid, superficial, arrogantly/blindly patriotic, and genocidal, we are, says our “NATO friends” who live on the other side of our border and across the pond. However, if only our NATO Anti-American friends could look in the mirror, they’d not only notice a reflection of themselves, but they would also see “the Americans“.