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To: Mannie who wrote (1460)	7/4/2002 8:36:59 PM
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I was rather pleasantly surprised last year, to discover how much Americans are loved in SE Asia. While traveling through Vietnam and Cambodia we were repeated told how much Americans were liked. This was post 9/11, many people passed along their feelings of sorrow about the events in NY. Interesting. However, right after 9/11, there was only symphathy for America almost everywhere in the world. I do think that the US's recent stance in the Israeli/Palestinian issues did not go well elsewhere in the world. I am not saying that they should not be supporting Israel (other US presidents have supported Israel)...just the manner in which the US foreign policy stance got viewed in so many developed countries. That last resolution calling for Israel to pull out was agreed to by the US simply because the British and other Europeans were going to vote for it. My guess is that the British did not agree to sit out the vote..which is what they usually do when the US vetos resolutions. To do anything other than agree to the resolution would have shown the world a split between the US and UK...something that is not desirable. Right after that resolution, the Bush administration did not talk about it...that was odd! About SE Asia. When real Americans meet these people, how can they remain angry? Dislike happens mostly at a distance, imho. Asians are very polite to foreigners. BTW--my view is that things need to get a little worse in the world....and only then can they get better. At this point anything other than right wing views is seen as un-American. That UK article would never get published in a US newspaper from fear of some sort of backlash. We already seen how CNN gets criticized for being too left wing while nobody seems to complain about Fox News. We seem to be going back in time to about the 1950 era. Locking up people indefinately and without legal representations is scary..reminds me a bit of the old Soviet Union and I am not sure even they did such things.

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