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There is a robust consensus among contemporary European leaders that peace and prosperity is best served by cooperation with the U.S. Characterizing European leaders as pro- or anti-American leads to a misleading and distorted view.[1] However, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to significant disagreement; with millions of Europeans taking to the streets to question the wisdom of an invasion. During the George W. Bush administration, public opinion of America has declined in most European countries. The previously strongly favorable opinion of America became successively worse between 2000 and 2006.[2] However, the strategic friendship between Europe and the U.S. remains strong, despite tensions.[1]
Historically, anti-Americanism In early 2002, the #1 best seller in France was L'Effroyable imposture, which claimed that 9/11 was a conspiracy orchestrated by the U.S. government[3]. It broke the French record for first-month book sales.[4] In Europe in 2002, vandalism of American companies was reported in Venice, Athens, Berlin, Zürich, Tbilisi, and Moscow.[5]
European anti-Americanism well predates the invasion of Iraq and the Bush Administration, with criticisms of American "hegemonism", the coining of the term "hyperpuissance", and the dream of making the EU a "counterbalance" to the United States all flaring up in the '90s. The usual criticisms were also levied, that America was enforcing sanctions against Iraq for oil, and attributing sinister motives to the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Serbia.[6] French anti-americanism predates the founding of the United States with the belief that it was a barbaric land and all who went there also degenerated.[7]
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- ...that the only Egyptian Revival mausoleum to feature both a pyramid and a mastaba (pictured) is found in Newburgh, New York's Old Town Cemetery?
- ...that Walter Braithwaite, who was dismissed for incompetence following the Battle of Gallipoli, was later commissioned to write an official report on the effectiveness of British staff officers during World War I?
- ...that Howard Judd developed objective measures of the hot flushes experienced in menopause, which were later used to assess the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy?
- ...that Dele Olojede's 2004 reports from Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan Genocide led him to become the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize?
- ...that the perpetrators of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history spent almost all the US$6.7 million they embezzled on lottery tickets, in the hope of winning back even more than they had stolen?
- ...that the social reform organization Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz has been labeled "un-Islamic" by upper caste Muslims?
- ...that the Baths of Zeuxippus, built sometime around 100 to 200 AD in Constantinople, housed over 80 statues of important historical figures like Aristotle, Homer, Plato and Julius Caesar?
- ...that the first trade union in Botswana was not recognised by the ruling Bechuanaland Protectorate until 1964, 16 years after its formation?
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