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Anti antiwar |
"In Europe, all of these sentiments and motives are also
found, along with two others. The first is a visceral and often
irrational anti-Americanism that is growing in rough proportion
to the increasing gap between U.S. power and that of the European
Union countries. The second is a desire to expunge though street
catharsis a deep sense of guilt over a European colonial past
now held responsible for the terrible problems of the Middle
East and other“third world” areas. These two sentiments
vary from country to country. In France, for example, there
is a paucity of guilt, but a superabundance of anti-Americanism;
in Britain it tends to be the other way ’round." Adam
Garfinkle, FPRI, February 24, 2003 |
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Religion |
" In post-Christian Europe in the Internet Age, the
infusion of religious energies into politics — even, in
some cases, the subsumption of political energies by an unrecognized
and still unnamed“secular” religion-goes hand in hand
with the building of a new polity: a federated European Union.
The popular, folk religion of that new political civilization
was manifest on the streets of major European cities this month,
complete with elements of spectacle and ritual common to all
religions. The protestors were, in essence, praying for peace
in the idiom of the new faith, which is normatively multiculturalist,
anti-nationalist, anti-globalizationist, anti-Zionist and sometimes
anti-Semitic, and, above all, anti-American. Almost entirely
unattached to traditional faith, moreover, it is an amalgam
of emotion and new superstition with eerie overtones."
Adam
Garfinkle, FPRI, February 24, 2003 |
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