Why Don't They Love US?

James Taub’s article on Harold Pinter in the last New York Times Magazine is one confusing piece. Taub claims that Pinter, along with the entire European intelligentsia, hates the US. That is not news; and the way Taub deals with this reality is not new either. He simply makes a long list of examples of how they hate the US without making any argument against them. It is as if the fact that they do not like what the US makes them automatically wrong. That is a useless line of “argument.” It does nothing to disprove the other’s argument or claim the moral high ground. All it does is turn it into a hissing match. What is worse is in the end of the article Taub makes a list of things that the US can do to “help our case.” The list is a litany of US’s failures in international laws and treaties compliance and moral failures. One can easily look that this list as partial proof of Pinter’s arguments against the US. If Taub thinks the US government is failing in such serious issue, he should at least admit that Pinter is at least partially right. This is why I disagree with the “conservatives” but despise the “liberals” in the US. At least the “conservatives” are consistent in their intends and arguments; the “liberals” are just morally schizophrenic.