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To: JohnM who wrote (60036)	12/5/2002 3:09:25 PM
From: paul_philp	Respond to of 281500

I seem to recall in the poll offered in that panel discussion between Chris Patten and Richard Perle that a goodly number respondents distinguished between criticisms of the Bush administration policies and the American government, etc. If that's true, I think it would be much more accurate to call some large amount of this as against the Bush administration. My experience in Canada is that anti-Americanism is the paradigm and it has been for a while. Over the past 2 years there has been added a fear that Bush is a moron who is going to get us all killed. Very reminiscent of the feeling when Regean was first elected - "run for the shelters". Paul

To: JohnM who wrote (60036)	12/5/2002 5:43:57 PM
From: jcky	Respond to of 281500

I seem to recall in the poll offered in that panel discussion between Chris Patten and Richard Perle that a goodly number respondents distinguished between criticisms of the Bush administration policies and the American government, etc. If that's true, I think it would be much more accurate to call some large amount of this as against the Bush administration. There is no doubt the Bush administration has precipitated a rift between our allies and friends. But I also believe paul is correct when he points to a trend of anti-Americanism which has been gaining influence in other parts of the world prior to George W. I guess it is part of the love/hate relationship with America. Where I am most concerned is our inability to see this gradual shift in the perception of American benevolence; whereby, we were once lauded as liberators but we have now been casted as imperialists. And our continued denial of how our foreign policies can have a deeply profound effect on the strategic marketing and makeup of our identity to the rest of the world puts us as a further disadvantage. We refuse to listen. We refuse to see. We refuse to acknowledge there may be a problem.