Perhaps even more infuriating is VDH's continued insistence that this whole business is some sort of myopic one-country-at-a-time affair when his own essays indentify Russia,China, our Middle East allies as well as our lazy assed Euro Trash "friends" all as active players and beneficiaries of the "unpopular war" we are conducting in Iraq and now contemplating rolling out to Iran.
Come on! All of the above and then some are seriously participating in a systematic and deadly process of war and war-like activity aimed directly at us.
Hatred for totally superior economic and military might is an established fact. VDH can rest assured that his occasional schadenfreude is far more widespread among all these players than he coyly admits to.
All of them and many more countries despise the US.
It's a fact of life.
It's a bit more complicated than "them and many more countries despise the US": huge percentages of their population would like nothing more than move in here. So, it is love-hate-jealousy-schadenfreude-admiration all mixed in together.
Speaking about big guys: Russia, China, Europe: what do you want us to do? We have a deafening screams from a half or more of our own population from engaging one small country in a time, with impatient public almost ready to give up already. I share your frustration but I don't see any open actions being feasible, especially against big guys.
Some behind-the-scene actions is another thing. (Until NY Slimes will expose them too).