Word: anti-american
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years of mollycoddling religious extremists, he has vowed to move "swiftly and firmly" if they protest his new policies too violently. Now he must navigate a country with enough enriched uranium for 50 nuclear bombs between the hard demands of Western allies and the howls of rage from anti-American citizens...
OSAMA & BERT? American culture is so powerful it permeates even anti-American protests. Last week Pakistani demonstrators carried posters of Osama bin Laden seated next to grouchy Sesame Street straight man Bert. The pictures were apparently downloaded from one of many websites publishing parody images of the Muppets in compromising positions. Sesame Street executives were none too pleased. You can find the images on the Web by searching for "Bert bin Laden...
...years of mollycoddling religious extremists, he has vowed to move "swiftly and firmly" if they protest his new policies too violently. Now he must navigate a country with enough enriched uranium for 50 nuclear bombs between the hard demands of Western allies and the howls of rage from anti-American citizens...
...chance," saying he would call off the assault if they surrendered bin Laden. The regime rejected the proposal. The Western military action sparked protests in Pakistan, Indonesia, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, where police opened fire on bin Laden supporters in Gaza. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf struggled to contain anti-American demonstrations in several major cities. He sidelined two generals and replaced his intelligence chief - all three had pro-Taliban sympathies - before allowing the country?s airspace and later airbases to be used by U.S. forces...
Although the U.S. government has called for Americans to avoid travel to Indonesia and has urged Americans in Indonesia to leave, I suspect that all Americans and other foreigners here are making their decisions according to their local realities. Last night, in a conversation with my electrician, who is a Muslim from Sumbawa, I heard a story about an American community on that island. There is a U.S.-managed gold mine on Sumbawa that employs several hundred Americans who live there with their families and who supervise a workforce made up of thousands of local people. As soon as this...