Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Darkwolf377

Even when they bluff that they can’t wait for the US to be replaced by, for instance, China. If they truly believed that the US was an oppressive imperialist nation, how could they even say the words to hope that China, of all nations, overtakes us? But I have seen Euro posters on Euro newspaper sites claim to want just that. It’s hard to believe that they really mean it and aren’t just displaying their reflexive anti-Americanism.


22 posted on 05/25/2009 10:18:39 PM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies ]


To: mrsmel
Yeah, when reading that kind of thing you think of petulant teens who bitch about their parents because they know their parents will always be there to pay the bills and put a roof over their heads. If mom and dad suddenly said "We agree, we stink, so leave, we don't deserve to buy your food and clothing anymore," those kids would be singing a different tune.

It's because the #1 status of the US is SO accepted that these countries are free to vocally hope for something they don't really think will happen.

So what will happen when the unthinkable happens, and under their very own "messiah," who they praised the US for choosing?

24 posted on 05/25/2009 10:59:09 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

To: mrsmel
But I have seen Euro posters on Euro newspaper sites claim to want just that. It’s hard to believe that they really mean it and aren’t just displaying their reflexive anti-Americanism.

I think you've just called them on it.

Anti-Americanism in Europe, in the last century, has usually been associated with Marxism. I noticed it in the writing of English youth writer Arthur Ransome many years ago, and I wondered why he seemed to dislike America. Years later I found out Ransome was a Eurocommunist who'd been to Russia during and immediately after the Russian Revolution, and he'd married Politburo member Grigoriy Zinoviev's personal secretary.

43 posted on 05/26/2009 4:39:13 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson