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ANTI-BUSH, ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT
Saturday, May 7, 2005
ANTI-BUSH, ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT
Anti-American and anti-Bush demonstrations have started in a number of places in The Netherlands: Dutchwoman Anja Wassink came with her teenage daughter Simone, who carried a "Wanted: George W. Bush, terrorist," sign. "We came because we want to do something to show we don't agree" with Bush's policies, Anja said. She said she had never attended a protest before. As you can see there's nothing like raising your children so that they can produce some well reasoned political arguments. But, the turn-out however was very low, a few thousand here, a few hundred there. Still some of it is truly mindboggling: Dutch blogger Sered argues that the protests are anti-Bush rather than anti-American and that they are fed by the negative attitudes prevalent in Dutch media with regards to the current president. While I agree with the media argument, we should be aware that the world has changed since the free wheeling 1990s and that even a Democratic president would put US interests first and should therefore not expect automatic European media support. Hillary Clinton, to name one, has moved to the center of US politcs and supported Bush on Iraq and in a number of other areas, she even produced a pro-life speech not that long ago. In doing that she has moved to the right of most of conservative Europe, hardly a ticket to demonstration-free visits to the old continent.
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