Anti-Nazi, Anti-Saddam and Anti-American

An interesting comment from a post at The Road To Surfdom:

Yes, in a way I am smug at the catastrophes befalling the U.S. I can only be concerned for my fellow man for so long... so long as they have clean hands when it comes to their treatment of other parts of the world.

Their dependence upon oil, their irresponsible attitude to the taxing of gasoline (allowing the proliferation of Hummers and big SUVs, far more than anywhere else in the world), their assumption that they can invade other countries and spread death and destruction, that they can so generously make some other country the "central front in the war on terror" to the cost (the tragic cost) of that country's civilian population, that their system of government is so superior, so wonderful, that others should literally die for it, that their economic irresponsibility may well bring down the economies of the rest of the world, can only be sheeted home to those who voted for Bush and his cronies for a short time. That others - objectors, conscientious or otherwise, did not bother to vote, or to protest or to "do their bit" for changing this madness - have allowed this to happen through their inaction, eventually makes them as culpable as the direct supporters of the Bush administration.

It's only by America learning a lesson - a hard lesson wrought by repeated catastrophes that would have been ameliorated but for their stupidity and arrogance - that they will change their ways and give us all some relief from their madness and self-importance.

America is a wonderful place - I've been there many times myself and was surprised at how bad it isn't (or wasn't) - but things have really changed stateside lately and it's payback time. They can't go on winning their rotten, voluntary wars, they can't go on profiting from the misery of others (and other countries) forever. There must be a time when the chickens come home to roost, when the voting population over there will make sure that this time they get it right.

Anit-American? You bet. I'm sick and tired of apologists for Bush manufacturing increasingly convoluted arguments, more and more specious as time goes by, to support the unsupportable (the recent "Iraqi Constitution" thread here at Surfdom was a disgraceful example of this). I'm anti-American like was anti-Nazi, and anti-South Africa, and yes, anti-Saddam...

I say that if you sow the wind, then you reap the whirlwind. That this is coming literally true in the case of the present spate of hurricanes only adds a little icing to a miserable cake.

The writer's name is Aussie Bob and here's his blog. But before any patriotic American readers go and blow off at him as a racist, let me tell you that this kind of "anti-American" attitude is increasingly prevelant over here. And in the rest of the world, I dare say.