The intellectual origins of America-Bashing

[Terrance]

> > The Cold War is not over - ...in one corner of Gaul a small village remains
> > defiant...

Defiance? Shall we talk of defiance? 

It was not a statue of Marx or Lenin
  or some French critical "text" impaled on the top
  of the Eiffel or Ivory tower that the Chinese students
  in Tiananmen Square raised as a symbol of their
  resistance, their hope, their love for Democracy, it was the gift of
the 
  French to the poor, low, tired, fragments of nations
  tossed upon these American shores, the Statue of Liberty.

  In Prague, 1989, it was not Marx but Jefferson that the
  students read in the streets.

American dissent and protest during the Vietnam War is unique in modern
history because the people forced the most powerful government in the
world to change its foreign policy.