Tel-Chai Nation

Biased-BBC presents an example of the Beeb's Chomskyism in motion:

'The US may not really need baby food from Italy or divers from Belgium, but its call for European and international help shows that, after the divisions over Iraq, it has now realised that even superpowers need friends.'

In other words, they're implying that Europe is not/does not want to be a friend of the US and its citizens. And to make matters worse, as this blog entry from EU Referendum points out, they haven't sent any genuine aid to the US for victims of Katrina:

A request for EU aid for Katrina victims, made directly to the United Kingdom in its EU presidency capacity, was turned down last week by British foreign minister Jack Straw (left).

His refusal came at last week's disastrous meeting of EU foreign ministers in Newport, despite the Irish foreign minister, and others, calling for an organised joint EU aid operation.

According to one witness, Straw blocked calls "for rather vague reasons." He "inarticulately mumbled" that India might be upset because it had received no EU aid when the country was struck by floods. "It was clear that he did not intend to grasp this opportunity to give the EU more visibility," a senior official who attended the meeting said.

As a result, according to the Belgian daily, De Standaard, the twelve EU member states who sent aid have done so on an individual basis. Their efforts involved neither "EU" aid, nor EU money.

Bad Jack Straw, baaaaaaaad Jack Straw. Just one example of the many anti-Americanists working in the European Union, and this also shows that, contrary to some claims that he's pro-Am, those claims are simply false.

Also available on Basil's Blog.

Update: Front Page Magazine interviews Barry and Judith Colp Rubin on the subject of anti-Americanism. Mrs. Rubin points out that,

The first phase [of anti-Americanism] began in the eighteenth century with the so-called degeneration theory, the belief that there was something inherently wrong with America that made animals there smaller and people physically and mentally inferior. Those of both species that came here from Europe were due for the same fate. This theory was propounded by leading 18th century European scientists such as Georges Louis LeClerc, the Count de Buffon, and found support among such prominent thinkers as Germany’s three greatest philosophers of the era – Immanuel Kant, G.W.F Hegel and Friedrich von Schlegel-- and even the father of evolution, Charles Darwin.

Wow. So German philosophers were among the advocates of anti-Americanism centuries ago. I must say, that's astounding news alright.

It's a good article, and offers some good insight to the history of anti-Americanism in Europe.

Update: In a recent report published in the Wall Street Journal, we find out that the PM of Germany, Schroeder, tried to play an anti-American card as an election ploy recently.

In a country like that, this somehow doesn't come as a surprise, even today. Not to mention that Schroeder himself does not deserve to be leading the government there if he's going to keep up that act.

Update 2: A Brit documentary called "The Power of Nightmares" is trying to attack the US, proving that anti-Americanism in the UK is much more evident than it seems. From ultra-knee-jerk CNN:

It says Bush and U.S. neo-conservatives, as well as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, are exaggerating the terror threat in a manner similar to the way earlier generations of leaders inflated the danger of communism and the Soviet Union.

It also draws especially controversial symmetries between the history of the U.S. movement that led to the neo-cons and the roots of the ideas that led to radical Islamism -- two conservative movements that have shaped geopolitics since 1945.

Curtis's film portrays neo-cons Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Donald Rumsfeld as counterparts to Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri in the two respective movements.

"During the Cold War conservatives exaggerated the threat of the Soviet Union," the narrator says. "In reality it was collapsing from within. Now they're doing the same with Islamic extremists because it fits the American vision of an epic battle."

Well well well. Trying to compare those whom the filmmaker doesn't like to their own enemies, while at the same time legitimizing the enemy itself, eh? And how about that, the filmmaker, Adam Curtis, a staffer for the ultra-establishment BBC, even tries to say that the threat of Communism in its time was exaggerated too!

Hate makes people do strange things.

Labels: anti-americanism, germany, londonistan, msm foulness