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"Before September 11th, most Americans tolerated the anti-Yank diatribes from the Rest Of The West as a quaint example of
the local culture. Filtered through the smoke of the World Trade Center, it's no longer quite so cute. The real phenomenon of
the last year is not Europe's or Canada's anti-Americanism, which has always existed, but a deep, pervasive and wholly new
American weariness with its so-called allies."

Absolutely loved and appreciated this plain spoken article.
He's right. The anti-Americanism is 'not so cute anymore'. As a matter of fact, I'm bone weary of it.

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"They know America could project itself anywhere
and blow up anything, but it doesn't. It could tell the UN to go screw itself, but it's not that impolite. Imagine any previous power of the last thousand years with America's unrivalled hegemony and unparalleled military superiority in a unipolar world with nothing to stand in its way but UN resolutions. Pick whoever you like: the Soviet Union, Imperial Japan, the Third Reich, Napoleon, the Vikings. That's really frightening."

Bump... for another part of this great article.