Originally Posted by
Joe McCarthy
There's also very little to be gained in taking an aggressive, hostile posture toward the US for rather, erm, obvious reasons. It frankly amazes me how all of the unthinking anti-American fanatics think they can routinely snub us and not have consequences. I think they only do this because at bottom they recognize that we're not as evil as claimed, and won't respond to constant insult the way earlier powers would have. Even so, fascist and Marxist forms of anti-Americanism are dangerous, and have done great damage to our civilization already. Hopefully the afflicted will wake up or remain marginalized.