Welcome at http://anti-anti-americanism.com/blog, the blog against anti-Americanism! This is where I continue my website www.anti-anti-americanism.com, i. e. all new articles and some of the old ones will be found here. Before you start reading a few notes on the term “anti-Americanism”:
What is anti-Americanism?
“In my view the mentality that blames America for all the bad in the world, that is against war only if the Americans are involved, that calls George W. Bush a warmonger and at the same time Putin a “prince of peace”, that puts the blame for September 11th on the Americans themselves, that calls to boycott American products and burns the American flag at so-called peace-demonstrations, to name only a few examples.”
This is what I wrote 3 years ago, and I think it is still true today. But I want to add one aspect:
Today it seems to me as if there were two Americas: an interventionist and an isolationist. The first one cares about the rest of the world and wants to get involved. The second one says “America First” and wants to retreat from the world.
I have heard people criticizing the interventionist America as “arrogant and aggressive”. But I know that it is thanks to this “aggressive” optimism that Europe was liberated from the Nazis, that I was allowed to grow up in freedom and democracy. And I am deeply grateful for that. So today, I worry about these isolationist tendencies and I hope they will not prevail.
“And we would do it again for our friends.”
(George W. Bush in his speech on the 60th anniversary of the allied landing in Normandy, June 6th 2004)
Herzlich willkommen bei http://anti-anti-americanism.com/blog, dem Blog gegen Anti-Amerikanismus! Hier führe ich meine Website www.anti-anti-americanism.com weiter, d. h. alle neuen und auch ein paar der alten Beiträge werden hier zu finden sein. Und jetzt viel Spaß beim Lesen!