Stanley Hoffman dissects the longer-term repercussions of our actions toward the rest of the world, and explains, once again, why Bush has to go.
Posted by dreeves at May 27, 2003 11:07 AM
The anti-Americanism on the rise throughout the world is not just hostility toward the most powerful nation, or based on the old clichés of the left and the right; nor is it only envy or hatred of our values. It is, more often than not, a resentment of double standards and double talk, of crass ignorance and arrogance, of wrong assumptions and dubious policies. Whether our current leaders are capable of self-examination at a time of military victory may affect the planet for a long time to come.