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The US is perceived by many as an international bully, a modern day imperial power. At this critical moment in history, Washington correspondent Justin Webb challenges that idea.
He argues anti-Americanism is often a cover for hatreds with little justification in fact. His three part series takes him to Cairo, Caracas and Washington but it begins where anti-Americanism began - in Paris.

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it begins where anti-Americanism began - in Paris.

No, that really isn't where it began at all. Let me be the fist to tell everybody where anti-Americanism began:

It began in America.

Interesting spin, isn't it? Point the blaming finger outside your own realm of influence. It's called projection, and externalization.

All you've got to do is google:

Wikipedia List of United States military history events

A very long list will be accessed, which continues up to the present day.

It's an empire, which I think is the root of the anti-Americanism.

My point exactly.

Quote: And this is not a recent migration brought on by Mr Bush. In May 1944 (just weeks before American GIs landed on the beaches of Normandy), Hubert Beuve-Mery, the founder of Le Monde newspaper - certainly no mouthpiece of the right - wrote this: "The Americans represent a real danger for France, different from the one posed by Germany or the one with which the Russians may - in time - threaten us. The Americans may have preserved a cult of Liberty but they do not feel the need to liberate themselves from the servitude which their capitalism has created.

It is time that we understood that this attitude, this contempt for what democracy can do, is at the heart of at least some of the anti-Americanism we see in the world today
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It is interesting that the author automatically uses "democracy" interchangably with "capitalism". thereby neatly dodging the point of the Frenchman's view.