[lit-ideas] Re: Londonistan
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:57:12 -0800
From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Why do I think Europe is in danger of losing its identify? (...) I
don't know, evidence, common sense, logic.
And you ignore technology, economics, etc. Europe is a vast, complex, highly educated
technological society.
This is like saying the Mexican farm workers are going to seize control of the
USA.
American is "The Great Satan" to almost as many Europeans as Muslims.
Tony Judt pointed this out in the NYRB. In a short sentence, he said the USSR lost the Cold
War, but the USA didn't win it either.
The USA came out of the Cold War, expecting to get recognition for saving everyone from the
USSR. But that didn't happen. The USA is probably more despised and feared now than ever in
its history.
This is due to US policies during the Cold War (destroying democracies and installing brutal
dictatorships in South America, South East Asia, South Korea, Iran, the Middle East).
And then there's the USA after the Cold War: starting illegal wars, threatening more wars in
Syria, Iran, North Korea, and generally acting arrogant towards everyone else.
So Judt is right: the USA didn't win the Cold War, not in the sense the Allies
won WWII.
Lawrence sees this when he writes that the USA is the Great Satan to almost everyone. What
an irony, no?
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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