From: "Garrison Hilliard"

The French are even hated by themselves!

http://tinyurl.com/qm7a

Interesting article--and many of the other linked articles are quite
interesting, as well.

Here is an article by Clark S. Judge from a recent Policy Review that may be of
interest. It takes a look at US influence in the world and the reasons for
opposition to it from a very interesting angle. Title "Hegemony of the Heart":

http://www.policyreview.org/DEC01/judge.html

A few quotes to give you a sense of it:

"The great battle of the twentieth century was between freedom and
totalitarianism — an entirely political conflict. The great battle of the
twenty-first century may well be between the forces of creative destruction and
those of destructive preservation — much more a social and cultural conflict.
Americans will wonder, what have we done to be drawn into conflicts like the
present one? The answer is simple: Our example is the hope of those who are
striving and rising. We cannot escape this conflict by changing what we do in
foreign policy or other arenas of action, because in this arena our power
derives not from what we do but from who we are — and what we represent to
these new classes and those who oppose them.
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"Yet like it or not, the world will not let us go. It might be said that in
country after country, those who are threatened on the top are seeking to
combine with those who are frustrated on the bottom against those who are
rising in the middle. We ask why they hate us, and the answer is that
“they” hate and fear so many people in their own countries for whom America
has become an emblem — and so far as they feel the same tug that these new
men and women feel, they hate themselves."


Chris Mark