Kulturen im Konflikt

[ThomasWach]

So, ich pack es mal hier hin.
Unser allseits beliebter Robert Kagan schreibt hier über den weltweiten Antiamerikanismus:

Anti-Americanism's Deep Roots
The Current Wave of Hostility Will Ebb. But This Is About More Than the Iraq War.

By Robert Kagan
Monday, June 19, 2006; Page A21

I recently took part in a panel discussion in London about civil conflict and "failed states" around the world, centered on the interesting work of the British economist Paul Collier. The panelists included the son of a famous African liberation-leader-turned-dictator, the former leader of a South American guerrilla group, a Pakistani journalist, a U.N. official and the head of a nongovernmental humanitarian organization. Naturally, our reasoned and learned discussion quickly transmogrified into an extended round-robin denunciation of American foreign policy.

The interesting thing was that the Iraq war was far from the main topic. George W. Bush hardly came up. The panelists focused instead on a long list of grievances against the United States stretching back over six decades. There was much discussion of the "colonial legacy" and "neo-colonialism," especially in the Middle East and Africa.
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