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.

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