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Around the world today, anti-Americanism is very much in vogue. In a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll released last June, favorable opinions of the United States among European citizens ranged from a dismally slim 23 percent among Spaniards, to a lackluster 56 percent in Great Britain. The last few weeks alone have seen German lawyers, buoyed by anti-American sentiment, file suit against recently resigned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for committing war crimes under international law. But from where do such sentiments arise?One reason frequently bandied about is that, in autocratic states like Saudi Arabia, students...
...prompted the Bush Administration to threaten to cut off more than $200 million in total aid to the country and moved cold warriors like former U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North to fly to Managua to campaign against him. The U.S. is concerned that Ortega will become another boisterously anti-American voice of Latin America's new left, which is led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her advisory committee on democracy promotion last week, Richard Soudriette, president of the Washington-based International Foundation for Election Systems, volunteered that he had just...
...transfer to Iraq, Maryam al-Rais, a member of the Iraqi parliament, lamented, "This is just the latest in a long list of insults to Iraqi dignity by the Americans." A Western official in Baghdad said he had received several angry calls from Iraqi political figures expressing "cold fury" at what they interpreted as American arrogance and insensitivity. The timing of Cardona's return could not have been worse. Anti-American sentiment is at an all-time high; opinion polls show that most Iraqis, regardless of sect or ethnicity, want the U.S. forces out. The Abu Ghraib scandal still resonates...
...timing of Sgt Cardona's return could not have been worse. Anti-American sentiment in Iraq is at an all-time high, and opinion polls show that most Iraqis-regardless of sect or ethnicity-want the U.S. forces out of their country. Hatred for the U.S. military runs deep among the minority Sunnis, whose centuries-old grip on power ended with the fall of Saddam Hussein; Sunni resentment fuels the insurgency that has raged ever since...
...There’s a great deal of wisdom buried in here somewhere—we’re given plenty on inefficient Cabinet power struggles, the need for a sensible, moderate foreign policy that emphasizes diplomacy over rash action, and even a bit about current anti-American sentiment and the causes of terrorism—but, like far too many of his contemporaries, Cohen becomes bogged down by the process. If bureaucratic meetings warrant pages while Iran and North Korea are diffused in a single paragraph, then there is a serious problem with Cohen’s political priorities...