ANTI-AMERICANISM AGAIN March 27, 2006
Posted by wmmbb in Middle East.trackback
The ghost that walks like Hamlet’s father striding across the moor spoke in the Australian House of Representatives today. Blair proposed that a straw man might keep the birds from the crops.
According to Reuters, via The New York Times:
Calling the anti-American feeling seen in parts of world politics “madness,” Blair said: “The danger with America today is not that they are too much involved. The danger is they decide to pull up the drawbridge and disengage. We need them involved.”
To criticize criminality and arrant unilateralism that has lead to the murder and tragedy of Iraq as anti-American is truly bizarre. I would have thought that, notwithstanding any other variable, the current account deficit will ensure that the United States is involved with the world,(I do not claim to know anything about economics, but this seems a good guess) not to mention their dependence on oil.
Tony, like John Howard, has no desire to go anytime soon.
Meanwhile, Mark has an analysis and links at Lavatus Prodeo.
On another level, this anti-Americanism and conversely pro-Americanism could be an argument about history, as James Carroll explains in The Boston Globe. Then the question might be raised as to what is the relationship between such people as Blair and Howard to the US Military Industrial Complex and their need for an enemy so as to consume more public resources, more resources than all the people sleeping out under bridges across the USA could ever conceive let alone dream about.
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