Sunday Herald - Enemy of the States

"I understand US politics, up to a point. I know about the oil, the congressional elections, America's economic problems and the long history of US isolationism, blood kin to grouchy unilateralism, that drives the Republican right. But there is something deeper than that going on behind the now-routine charge of anti-Americanism. The historians call it exceptionalism, the sense that the US is a special, even unique case, the belief that America is beyond question the greatest country the world has seen, and the conviction that anyone who doesn't always agree must be an enemy. Some Americans, a large number of them, don't understand why other people don't understand them. September 11 gave some of them cause, so they think, to put the worst possible interpretation on that confusion."

Another good article from the Glasgow Sunday Herald on all of us anti-Americans.

"viachimp"