{"id":508,"date":"2001-09-28T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2001-09-28T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=508"},"modified":"2001-09-28T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2001-09-28T17:06:08","slug":"why_do_they_hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/28\/why_do_they_hat.html","title":{"rendered":"Why do they hate us?  For stupid reasons."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the below-mentioned Victory Blog, a Sunday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunday-times.co.uk\/news\/pages\/sti\/2001\/09\/23\/stiusausa01024.html\">Times<\/a> of London article with a very different view than what you might be hearing elsewhere (&#8220;elsewhere&#8221; including, occasionally, &#8220;here&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">So at the most basic level America is loathed simply because she&#8217;s on top. The world leader is always trashed simply for being the leader. The terms of the trashing are remarkably consistent. Nineteenth-century Germans, Lind points out, responded to Britain&#8217;s dominance by saying, in effect, &#8220;they may be rich but we have soul&#8221;. That is exactly what many Europeans and all anti-Americans are now saying: we&#8217;re for God or culture or whatever against mammon. This is inaccurate &#8211; America has more soul, culture and a lot more God than any of her critics &#8211; but it is the predictably banal rhetoric of envy.<\/p>\n<p>Good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the below-mentioned Victory Blog, a Sunday Times of London article with a very different view than what you might be hearing elsewhere (&#8220;elsewhere&#8221; including, occasionally, &#8220;here&#8221;): So at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11799,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/the_new_captain_america.html","url_meta":{"origin":508,"position":0},"title":"The New Captain America","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Jan-08 6:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"With Captain America #34, we have the all-new, all-different Captain America. 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