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I know it's not enough, given that this administration has been responsible for destroying the security and livelihood of an entire country, reducing it to seething sectarian violence in the margins of which people try to lead their lives -- (not this country -- Iraq). It's not enough given the lies and the continued lying about the situation in Iraq, which gives succor to our enemies, fuels extremism and has endangered not just our democracy, but all democracies around the world...let us lay blame where blame is due...Europe's extreme Right (on the rise) and Left wing (weak) are united in a virulent anti-Americanism...So filling out the ballot may not seem enough, and let's not fool ourselvest that it is, that throwing out the Republican Congress can in any way be adequate to what has gone in in the past six years, but let's just say that it is a start.
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Actually, antiamericanism is hardly restricted to extreme right and left wings in Europe. Consternation about the behavior of the US is really across the board at this point. Even the voting behavior of the US population in the last election was in itself hard to take.
Philosopher Ernst Tugendhat openly called himself an anti-americanist already during the first Gulf War. He said at the time, he was not anti-american, but anti-americanist.
Perhaps part of the rogue behavior of the US today is indeed to be explained (beyond oil interests) with fear over the waning of the americanist era. If the US can't be famous or popular, it will at least be infamous.
I think anti-americanist vs. anti-american may be a better way of putting this...I have just never seen anti-americanism in Europe manifest in any really politically progressive way so while I think there is certainly reason to be anti-american, anti-americanism as an ideology can be a mask for anti-democratic reaction.
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