Soccer has been known to inflame many fans' national passions, but a game last February in Guadalajara, Mexico, takes the prize. There, the U.S. team lost to Mexico in the Olympic men's qualifying soccer match, and was met with a stunning display of "sportsmanship": The Mexican fans — delirious with victory — celebrated with biting cries of "OSAMA! OSAMA!"
Can such hateful anti-Americanism — from a very well-treated neighbor, no less — be dismissed as a disproportional response to a sport notoriously emotive the world over? Perhaps.
John Gibson, however, would probably disagree. In his view, such hateful anti-Americanism is the world's favorite sport.
This, at least, is the premise of his newly released Hating America: The New World Sport. In it Gibson — host of The Big Story on the Fox News Channel — details the extent to which, in a post-9/11 world, irrational anti-Americanism is the tie that binds the "international community": Germany with France, Belgium with South Korea, Canada with the "Arab Street."
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Posted by Muddy at May 4, 2004 04:42 PM | TrackBackWhere's the surprise ?
When you personaly do bad things to others, when you openly break well established rules of conduct, when you lie, do you personaly expect more loves from those you, molested, shocked and betrayed ?
I don't think so. You expect them to be angry.
So if the USA disrespect international law, starting with guantanamo. Launch wars on very weak basis and disregarding the opinion of others, lie openly on some issues ...
Is there any surprise in them being loved less ?
It's easier to be loved when you free a country from occupation, than when you occupy it. It's easier to be loved when you bring an era of prosperity than when you pull the world into the big hole of debt and pollution.
There's not many ways to turn it around if the US are loved less there are only 2 options :
The rest of the world has turned evil, is jealous and disrespectful ...
Or the USA have turned agressive and violent.
One involves 200 countries turning suddenly bad for no reason.
One involve one country getting very strong opposition based on a very bad leadership.
Try to guess which is the most plausible explanation...
Posted by: DF at May 17, 2004 02:30 PM
You should follow the link and read the comments on the book.
You'll find some debate on the subject.
Bring some one with a brain and a heart in charge of your country and you'll see the difference.
"Bring some one with a brain and a heart in charge of your country and you'll see the difference."
Tell you what DF, you guys try that in France first and then we'll talk.
Posted by: mrs. muddy at May 18, 2004 08:37 PM