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The nasty virus called anti-Americanism is continental European in
origin and has spread here. It is born out of frustrated impotence
because governments have left everything to America to sort out and
this wounds our pride - as well it might do. The reaction is to
blame thoe who help! The remedy is to pull our weight and when we
do so in partnership we can feel pride instead. Our continental
partners don’t even try - they just sneer and snipe from the sidelines.

This article by Littlejohn is timely and most welcome

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19.8.08
Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?
Richard Littlejohn


Pity I was away last week. I must have missed the march through
London against the Russian invasion of Georgia. What a magnificent
sight it must have been - half a million protesters standing firm
against tyranny and supporting freedom and democracy.

I'd have loved to have heard Red Ken denouncing the bloodthirsty
gangster regime in Moscow, George Galloway comparing Vladimir Putin
to Hitler and Tony Benn declaring it was all about oil.

What's that you say? There was no such rally? I suppose they must all
have been too busy demonstrating against Chinese oppression in Tibet
and demanding a boycott of the Beijing Olympics.

Or perhaps not. Funny how the Not In My Name crowd always overlooks
aggression by Communist or 'former' Communist regimes.

There's no such reticence when it comes to portraying George W. Bush
as the new Hitler or daubing swastikas on the Israeli flag. Look at
the protests against the wars in Iraq and Lebanon.

The same people who can't wait to burn the American flag in Trafalgar
Square are only too happy to ignore Russian, Chinese and Iraqi
genocide.

Where were all the marchers when the Russians were crushing Chechnya?
Why so silent on Tibet? They must have been looking the other way
when Saddam slaughtered the Kurds.

It hasn't been difficult to find apologists for the invasion of
Georgia. We're told that the 'American-educated' Mikhail Saakashvili
provoked the Russians beyond all reason. What did we expect
encouraging the spread of democracy in former Soviet satellite states?

No wonder Moscow feels threatened when independent countries it once
ruled by military might become members of the European Union and
apply to join Nato.

Putting a Western missile defence system in Poland is like waving a
red rag at a bull, the sophisticates say. Putin has no option but to
retaliate.

I don't remember them demanding the withdrawal of Soviet nukes
pointing at Western capitals from East Germany. Back then, the
Guardianistas were all for one-sided disarmament on our part.

The Left has always been picky about their protests. While they
rightly denounce white racism in South Africa, they stay silent on
black racism in Zimbabwe.

They bang on about American cultural imperialism, but have nothing to
say about Russian or Chinese military imperialism.

America is constantly denounced for its 'yuman rites' abuses, but you
never hear a dicky bird about the denial of basic freedoms in China
or throughout the Muslim world.

Europe's Leftists define themselves by their hatred of the U.S., yet
cheerfully tolerate all kinds of tyranny elsewhere. They're against
'torture' at Guantanamo Bay, but take a relaxed view of Chinese and
Russian death squads.

There are still plenty of 'comrades' in the Labour Party and the
trades union movement who regret the day the Berlin Wall came
tumbling down. They're only too willing to give succour to the
enemies of freedom and democracy around the world.

So the official line is that the war in Iraq was nothing to do with
Saddam boasting that he had weapons of mass destruction and defying a
whole slew of United Nations resolutions to which he agreed after the
liberation of Kuwait. It was all about oil.

Yet the invasion of Georgia was justified because Russia was
'provoked'. So we can assume that Putin never gave a moment's thought
to Georgia's pipeline to the West?

What about the announcement last week by a Russian general that
Poland was now a prime target for a nuclear strike because it had the
audacity to agree to site a Nato defence shield within its borders?

I must have missed the CND press release on that one.

A new survey says that British attitudes towards the United States
are governed by ignorance of the facts.

For instance, most people here and in Europe believe America sold
Saddam most of his arsenal. The truth is that just 0.46per cent of
Iraq's weapons came from the U.S. Russia supplied 57 per cent, China
12 per cent and the cheese-eating surrender monkeys across the
Channel were responsible for 13 per cent.

The U.S. is routinely portrayed as anti-Islamic. But in 11 out of 12
of the most recent conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims, America
has sided with the Muslims.

Other widespread myths such as Americans being denied medical care if
they don't have health insurance are simply not true. Filthy,
unregulated Russian and Chinese factories and power stations spew out
poisonous gases, but America is branded the world's biggest polluter,
even though it has done more to cut carbon emissions since the year
2000 than any other country.

The 'liberal' media has a vested interest in perpetuating such lies.
The Left seems to be gripped with some kind of political penis envy
of America, which can be assuaged only by sucking up to tyrants and
dictators.
If we are entering a new Cold War, you can guarantee that the Left
will once again be on the wrong side.

There's nothing new in this. Forty years ago this summer, the big
demonstrations in London were against America's war against communist
North Vietnam, not the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

So no change there, then.