{"id":4145,"date":"2003-02-14T16:43:11","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2003-02-14T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2003-02-14T16:43:11","slug":"european-anti-americanism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4145","title":{"rendered":"European anti-Americanism"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a conference call of the <\/a>we<\/p>\n

were asked to say what we are doing to keep our spirits up during this<\/p>\n

time of looming war. Most of my friends and colleagues reported practically<\/p>\n

useful or spiritually worthy activities that they have embarked on recently<\/p>\n

to bolster their spirits—ranging from playing music to rediscovering<\/p>\n

grammar school friends to co-teaching a course with Noam Chomsky (literally). All<\/p>\n

I could think of was our family decision this morning to follow the instructions<\/p>\n

in the newspaper and buy plastic sheeting for an emergency shelter room.<\/p>\n

(Unfortunately, all the sheeting is gone from local stores). <\/p>\n

<\/a>Although I probably should focus on the damage<\/p>\n

that we may be about to do in the Middle East, my actual thoughts range<\/p>\n

from fear for my family, to irritation at the way the Bush Administration<\/p>\n

handles diplomacy, to equally profound irritation with the European<\/p>\n

anti-War movement<\/a>. Everyone’s instinct in a time of crisis is to use<\/p>\n

it for pre-existing political ends, whether they want to bash American<\/p>\n

culture or impose US power on the Middle East. Each group interprets everyone<\/p>\n

else’s motives as narrowly selfish or self-indulgent. And all the parties<\/p>\n

act so as to confirm the worst interpretations of their enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a conference call of the we were asked to say what we are doing to keep our spirits up during this time of looming war. Most of my friends and colleagues reported practically useful or spiritually worthy activities that they have embarked on recently to bolster their spirits—ranging from playing music to rediscovering grammar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}