pride and prejudice

A war of words has broken out in the blogosphere over anti-Americanism.

Despite myself, I got roped into it over at Clive Davis’s blog, and at TigerHawk’s. Roger Simon has weighed in, as have his readers. The conversation isn’t very elevated. In fact, it’s downright depressing.

pride:

Oh, and one more thing: stop talking as if Americans are more virtuous than Europeans

more pride:

We saved them from Hitler. We kept them from suffering the fate of eastern europe. We financed the rebuilding of their countries that were crushed after WWII. We travel there and spend our money while they look down on us and raise their nose. When they travel to the states we treat them like guests while they continue to lecture us.

prejudice:

Obviously, you’re listening to the same siren song as the haters. In your heart of hearts you imagine it would be very comfortable to join them. To cover your ass, you wring your hands, exclaim that you’ve almost given up hope, and blame the victims. You’re not fooling anyone except yourself. You can either keep up the good fight, or you can join the enemy. If you want to be a coward and a traitor to the truth, go ahead. Just don’t try to rationalize it to us, or pretend that you are anything but what you are. We can see right through you.

Ugh.