Thursday, February 01, 2007

The Nature of Anti-Americanism

Here's more the same as was posted in Contradictions Abound.

I got this from Isaac's blog with this link -- a VDH column:

Nabih Berri, the Lebanese Amal militia chief who is now allied with both the anti-American Hezbollah and Syria, has much of his family residing in Dearborn, Mich.


Amr Salem, until recently a cabinet minister in Bashar Assad's anti-American government in Syria, was a senior program manager at Microsoft. His family still lives in the U.S.


Bilal Musharraf, son of Pakistan strongman Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has been a Boston-based consultant and a Stanford business and education student. Meanwhile, his father's government is either unwilling or unable to arrest on his soil the remnants of al-Qaeda, among them, most likely, Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Prof. Hanson asks:
What are we to make of these incongruities and others like them?
Read it all to find out.



I will add to VDH's list several other names:

Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi's son in Canada.

Anti-American PhD candidates in prestigious universities in the US and UK who pretend to be socialists/anti-imperialist but never criticize the Islamic republic's neo-Imperialism and their neo-liberal economic policies.


Add your own names to the list...

4 comments:

Joe Gringo said...

Mr. Hanson is fantastic, as I've said in the past..........VDH for Secretary of State in 2008!

Aryamehr said...

Armed resistance by Lor, Bakhtiari and Qashqai Tribes of Iran against the Islamic Republic occupying Iran has commenced:

http://aryamehr11.blogspot.com/2007/02/armed-resistance-against-islamic-regime.html#links

blank said...

anti-Americanism is rather epidemic and played a role in my weekend posting, "Reading the Iranian Tea Leaves."

Part of it is propaganda, part of is America's past record of abandoning friends and part is elected officials in America.

Gayle said...

Good article you linked to, Serendip. This one paragraph alone gives much food for thought: "

Indeed, sometimes exposure to American culture creates feelings of ambiguity — a sense of guilt among conservative arrivals at their newfound liberal appetites. In other cases, the perception arises that someone or something must have prevented the Middle East from enjoying what Americans take for granted." I would hope that is true but I'm not sure we can count on it.