From: Alan Cairns 

I think Thees is right about this. It's probably difficult to see from
inside the USA, but from outside Bush's tendency to see his country as
somehow separate from and superior to the USA is obvious. I don't think
most people in Europe or Canada and Australia are  anti-American. But I do
think they are against American unilateralism.

It's one thing to hate Yanks. It's quite another to hate Yankee policies.

Alan


On 20/02/2003 12:26 AM, in article
2r395vkqk77peug3hvssb2vmlqtoogukc7{at}4ax.com, "Thees Peereboom"
 wrote:

>
> There is also a Bush-administration tendency of placing itself (and
> thus the US) outside the rest of the world, claiming some sort of
> moral superiority. Think of the Kyoto treaty, the willingness to start
> a war without the consent of the UN, etc. etc. That is what most are
> opposing against. The UN was actually founded to decide in these
> matters, it may not be the most efficient organisation one can think
> of, but it's the best the world could do sofar.
>
> Sure there is anti-americanism, there has always been and will always
> be, probably. But that's more in the sense of the usual protests
> (Yankee, Go Home (and, please, please, take us with you)). The current
> protests are different.

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