Instapundit applauded this Victor Davis Hanson piece about the decline of dissident leftism and criticism of anti-Americanism. Interestingly, the representatives he cites (Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Moore) are all Americans.

...anti-Americanism is neither logical nor empirical. Indeed, it is a fundamentalist secular religion, not a reasoned stance, one entirely inconsistent and unpredictable in its choice of friends and foes � except for one constant: Whatever America does, it hates.

I was going to take exception to this, pointing out that there are people such as Jimmy Carter, who are overly naive, but certainly not anti-American. But then I heard about this: the climax of a conference of anti-globalisation campaigners in Italy is a demonstration against a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq. Spokespeople identified as leftists (who'd a thunk?) criticize the U.N. Security Council's unanimous resolution, ordering Iraq to disarm.

I'm undecided about any military action, but with people like that standing up against it, I'm tempted to support it. Rather than strictly opposition to the war, it truly does look like opposition to the US. We've got people on campus, too that are going to make me a warmonger: consider this professor who cancelled class in protest against a war in Iraq. He's trying to frighten people with pictures of supposed victims of depleted uranium weapons, even though there's little evidence that such weapons cause these problems.