From the BBC - "Death To America"

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BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb looks at the anti-American movement.

Part 1: "A pattern was emerging and has never seriously been altered. A pattern of willingness to condemn America for the tiniest indiscretion - or to magnify those indiscretions - while leaving the murderers, dictators, and thieves who run other nations oddly untouched."

Part 2: "In other words, in Latin America as elsewhere in the world, is anti-Americanism a smoke screen, a very convenient smoke screen, [to] hide the reality of local failure?"

I think nearly all anti-Americans are hypocrits. On one hand they spout antiUS rhetoric, while with the other hand the take whatever aid, trade and technology the US offers. I'm glad to see someone in the BBC is thinking the same.

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[(Anonymous)]

Tell me who's the real patriots
The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags?
Or the people with the guts to work
For some real change
Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong
We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves
Our real test of strength is caring
Not the toys of war we sell the world
Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms
Old glory for a blanket
As you suck on your thumbs

Real freedom scares you
'Cos it means responsibility

So you chicken out and threaten me

Saying, "Love it or leave it"
I'll get beat up if I criticize it
You say you'll fight to the death
To save your worthless flag

If you want a banana republic that bad
Why don't you go move to one
But what can just one of us do?
Against all that money and power
Trying to crush us into roaches?

We won't destroy society in a day
Until we change ourselves first
From the inside out

We can start by not lying so much
And treating other people like dirt
It's easy not to base our lives
On how much we can scam

And you know it feels good to lift that monkey off your back!

- Jello Biafra/Stars and Stripes of Corruption

So is he anti-American, or a good patriot as opposed to a knee jerker?
Am I if I disagree how the country is being run? If I participate in civic duties such as voting, how much power do I really have if the process itself is questionable? I love my country too, I don't want to leave it necessarily. I also listen to/watch the BBC News, as it is probably the last good news source on the planet. The whole fiasco with Abu Graihb shows just how far we can fall. As a nation that supposedly "does not torture", the exposure of the fact that we *do* so after touting our humanitarian stance for all this time, is more than just embarrassing.

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