Nobody likes us, everybody hates us
Aug. 16th, 2002 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfWhat happened, many Americans are wondering, to that wave of sympathy and stockpile of global goodwill they encountered after Sept. 11?
''It was squandered,'' says Meghnad Desai, director of the Institute for Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a member of the House of Lords.
''America dissipated the goodwill out of its arrogance and incompetence. A lot of people who would never ever have considered themselves anti-American are now very distressed with the United States,'' he says.
Damn right it did. And our president's a fucking idiot. He vetoed five billion dollars' worth of supplemental aid for firefighting. After September 11th. After these people more or less single-handedly turned his ratings around. Maybe if he didn't spend so much money trying to bail out the companies of his friends and spending money on defense contracts, he'd have more money to give to the people who really need it. *grumble*
''It was squandered,'' says Meghnad Desai, director of the Institute for Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a member of the House of Lords.
''America dissipated the goodwill out of its arrogance and incompetence. A lot of people who would never ever have considered themselves anti-American are now very distressed with the United States,'' he says.
Damn right it did. And our president's a fucking idiot. He vetoed five billion dollars' worth of supplemental aid for firefighting. After September 11th. After these people more or less single-handedly turned his ratings around. Maybe if he didn't spend so much money trying to bail out the companies of his friends and spending money on defense contracts, he'd have more money to give to the people who really need it. *grumble*
