What is anti-Americanism

["Ken Hanly" <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is posted with the permission of John Warnock: The Globe and Mail is a
Canadian national business-oriented newspaper.

Cheers, Ken Hanly

:  Be sure to read the Globe's editorial today, "Please
don't blame the American victims." This is a good indication of the
political climate we are now facing.  Jack.


>Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:27:10 -0600
>To: letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>From: "John W. Warnock" <warnockj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: What is Anti-Americanism?
>
>Dear Editor:
>         I was born, raised and educated in the United States. I was in
> the U.S. Foreign Service and worked at the Department of State before
> emigrating to Canada. In 1965 I was asked at give a presentation at a
> teach-in at the University of Saskatchewan on the Vietnam War. I gave a
> historical background on French and then U.S. government involvement in
> Indochina. A group of professors then accused me of being
> "anti-American." At the time I was still an American citizen.
>         Later in a press interview I criticized the U.S. government for
> the massive B-52 carpet bombing of Vietnam, Operation Rolling Thunder. I
> declared that this policy, which caused the deaths of hundreds of
> thousands of innocent men, women and children, was an example of "state
> terrorism." I was widely attacked for being anti-American.
>         It did not take me long to learn that calling someone
> anti-American was the Canadian version of McCarthyism. It is an attempt
> to shut down all criticism of government policy.
>         Sincerely yours,
>         John W. Warnock
>
>