Word: anti-american
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...heard about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But she never guessed that one year later it would lead her to spend two rainy days fasting in front of the White House in protest against the President's threat to attack Iraq. Meeker worries about terrorism, and she thinks anti-American anger will only increase if the U.S. tries to remove Saddam with military force. "I've been wondering for months how we went from al-Qaeda to Iraq," she says. "I don't disagree that Saddam has done horrible things, but we need to look at the things we've done...
...active in campaigns against U.S. policies in Latin America, but he supported the Gulf War and U.S. intervention in the Balkans. Fox subscribes to several oft-recited criticisms of a military campaign against Saddam. He believes a war with Iraq would kill Iraqi civilians, produce a new generation of anti-American terrorists and destabilize the Middle East. "These are very likely consequences of war," he says. "This is not the way to achieve a more just society in Iraq." And yet, while he supports "aggressive" U.N. weapons inspections, Fox--like many others in the antiwar camp--doesn't know...
...Yemen. The 1993 debacle in Somalia proved to al Qaeda that to defeat the United States, all you have to do is kill a few Americans on camera. The alternative to mounting an overwhelming response to challengers like Saddam is to fight a bloody retreat from world primacy. Anti-American unrest in the Middle East reached its peak after Sept. 11 but before the Afghanistan campaign, when the United States seemed to be the most vulnerable and the extremists thought that they could win. But during operations in Afghanistan, the streets fell quiet...
More so than the anti-missile defense shield or the Department of Homeland Security, Ronald’s diplomacy protects our country. Yet no one has suggested a fast-food analogue to the Air Transportation Stabilization Board. The airlines aren’t the only ones affected by terrorist attacks. McDonald’s has long been the victim of anti-American violence...
...prevent discrimination against women who wear the veil." Abou Jahjah founded the Arab European League two years ago; it now claims close to 1,000 members across Europe. He is not anti-American; in fact, he admires anti-discrimination laws in the U.S. "America's race laws are more advanced than here," he says. "I have relatives in Detroit and they are Arab-Americans but they feel American. I don't feel European. Europe needs to make its concept of citizenship inclusive to all cultures and religions. I'm a practicing Muslim but I'm not a freak...