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“My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian Socialist Party" (actually the national-socialist and expansionist dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic) as the victim. Many of us are proud of having helped organize to prevent the slaughter and deportation of Europe's oldest and largest and most tolerant Muslim minority, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Kosovo. But at that time, when they were real, Chomsky wasn't apparently interested in Muslim grievances. He only became a voice for that when the Taliban and Al Qaeda needed to be represented in their turn as the victims of a "silent genocide" in Afghanistan. Let me put it like this, if a supposed scholar takes the Christian-Orthodox side when it is the aggressor, and then switches to taking the "Muslim" side when Muslims commit mass murder, I think that there is something very nasty going on. And yes, I don't think it is exaggerated to describe that nastiness as "anti-American" when the power that stops and punishes both aggressions is the United States.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)”

Politics United States Morality Britain Africa Imperialism Iraq War Abolition British Empire Caribbean Slave Trade American Imperialism Anti Americanism

Book:A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

Source: A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

“Just war theory has been converted into a form of apologetics for whatever atrocities your favored state is carrying out.”

Anti War Pacifism Anti Imperialism Anti Americanism

Book:What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

Source: What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

“Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, because what the US government and its allies do, whatever they do, has to be opposed—and opposed however thuggish and benighted the forces which this threatens to put your anti-war critic into close company with. For some, because of an uncontrollable animus towards George Bush and his administration. For some, because of a one-eyed perspective on international legality and its relation to issues of international justice and morality. Whatever the case or the combination, it has produced a calamitous compromise of the core values of socialism, or liberalism or both, on the part of thousands of people who claim attachment to them. You have to go back to the apologias for, and fellow-travelling with, the crimes of Stalinism to find as shameful a moral failure of liberal and left opinion as in the wrong-headed—and too often, in the circumstances, sickeningly smug—opposition to the freeing of the Iraqi people from one of the foulest regimes on the planet.”

Source: A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

“Those who hated the crimes of Pinochet closed their eyes when the same crimes were committed by Castro. The posture of many countries was governed by their hostility against the United States, and they excused Castro out of a reflexive anti-Americanism. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend.) These political games still take place today.”

Castro Political Games Anti Americanism Pinochet

Book:Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

Source: Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

“There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.”

Prejudice Bias Antisemitism Anti Americanism

Author:Josef Joffe

“Anti-Americanism is now the mother's milk of the American educational system. Many schools in the United States teach that capitalism is exploitative and American foreign policy is imperialistic. Patriotism isn't taught in American schools. This needs to be understood. The sins of America's past are emphasized while the country's virtues are eclipsed. The achievements of capitalism are denied by environmentalists, socialists and anarchists whose voices have poisoned the well of higher education to the bargain. The older generation has been asleep at the switch, not looking too closely at what their children have been taught. And now the damage is far advanced, and the country's bureaucracies are packed and crowded with people who haven't a clue. Oddly, the United States is undermined by a national psychology that tolerates sedition and treason as if these were legitimate forms of dissent.”

Capitalism Dissent Anti Americanism

Author:J.R.Nyquist

“The stupidity of all commercial or cultural anti- Americanism. As if Americanism did not run through every society, every nation, and every individual today, like modernity itself.”

Modernity Anti Americanism

Book:Fragments

Source: Fragments

“Page 210 Indeed, precisely because American society is so wealthy overall, America has come to occupy the role of a starkly market-dominant minority vis-à-vis the rest of world. We are now the object of intense resentment, even hatred, spurred by globalization.”

Ethnic Conflict Anti Americanism

Book:World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

Source: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability