and americans reacted by saying they must hate us because we are good and for our freedom but it turns out that is not a helpful way to understand for a behavior in the concept of anti-americanism is a wall between ourselves with the complexity of the world by decide to look into its history and it goes back 200 years. >>host: y 8099? >> in that year there were a number of critical books printed about the rise of u.s. industrial power posing a challenge to industrial trade and there was a debate tim political realm how to ensure the rising challenge of the new world power would not take over the market's that is the dispute but

americans read it as the world is coming to hate us because we're so successful because we are free and stand for good but nonetheless it is the predominant way we have engaged with no world. >> are there any country's legitimately anti-american? >> no. iran which itself dispute produces all manner of vicious propaganda but among iranians we're quite popular. they're the most pro-american and population the pollsters have not been able to findt the rise

and fall of approval of u.s. policy in which could be left in demonstrations or disputes between governments but to throw in there the catch all category but it is the underlying hatred even though public opinion changes radically germans were asked there opinion under george w. bush's fell those in a couple of years obama was elected and approval was 92%. it is people who make discriminating judgments on the basis of how they assess the leader of the same country and many western europeans were unhappy with the inarticulate proponent who seem to have a spider in

his step and when that president left office and a new president came and who seem to be very good at articulating why it was in the u.s. interest to seek cooperation to embody a set of ideals united states is the land of opportunity but all the sudden it is very popular so there is the underlying and consistent hatred that is quite rare and foreigners could make distinguishing judgments. >>host: why do we care what germans think of us? and was the last time we were asked what we thought of angela merkle? >> but. >>host: but why? >> united states has a lot

of power and resources and when we get of cold day get pneumonia and when we decide to use our chairman in the long dash trend is the powerful that it looms very large for good reason in the mind of many people along the world but the reason why we should care not so much about whether to treat the foreigners well but how could we best achieve our goals? acting unilaterally and who cares were to use the multilateral institutions and coefficients of different of course, multipliers to venture we have hope to pursue our goals and policies are well thought out.

in 2002 over the disputed of the run-up to the iraq war that president of france urged americans not to go to war. don't go there we know the terrain and we fought in the algeria this will and bad the and you will be seen as say western army of occupation and awake and arab nationalism and it will not be in your best interests. what did we do? we said the venture anti-american and recent their star is falling and ours is on the rise so we boycotted the of french goods and reid named the french fries freedom of fries and congress gave the speech we should take a parboil days from normandy every new home because it is not a fit resting place and if there were demonstrations and say why is this way van

then we say it reminds me of the early '60s when the president of france charles de gaulle told the american kennedy administration don't go to war in vietnam we know the terrain there were french colony before this will end badly you'll be seen as a western arm evacuation you will sink step by step into a quagmire and predicted it would last 10 years as will be bad for the west so relaunched of boycott of french goods and french flags and a member of congress gave a speech to say we should begin for boys from normandy because it is no longer a fit place and we said he is the anti-american with the war against in vietnam and in each case we

ignored for an opinion and the problem is we marched off to the tune foreign policy debacles there is a problem there. the secretary of defense to orchestrated the escalation of the 30 years later spoke of his regret we could count listen that it was a failure of the imagination to realize if french were the best informed westerners and we deny take them seriously because we assumed they had in for us. as the book recounts i went to their records and the french archives and what the advisers were telling him and they were not saying those americans had no coulter but what they said was they analyzed the intelligence the rich getting from vietnam

vietnamese exiles were concentrated in paris they had a lot of good information and tried to step -- help with us but we could not hear it. >>host: are there times with other nations in type feelings the entire roman empire? >> that is the right question to ask and in that era of the golden age of the british empire officials will talk about the notion of why they encountered resistance in the indian colony but the explanation was when people rise up for criticized the problem is they don't like british civilization or literature or the values anglophobia to explain the resistance the british empire.

why don't they like the iron rule? they don't like tolstoy's so what redoing using be imperial terms? also used by a national chauvinist and french fascist talks about the anti-french conspiracy of those who will undermine france and why in other countries as the imperialists and it is exclusive. to suggest if you criticize aspects of society your government policy, not so much i may disagree but they say you are against your own country you are beyond the

pale of the discussion is the exclusive concept that doesn't give access to the critiques essential to make a more perfect union that is why the founding generation has the right to criticize the amendment is among the first rookie more american but i found over 200 years critics have worked hard with the loyalty is anti-americanism with the war of 1812 and mexico and the rise of the empire and across the 20th century it is the constructive turn the does that do justice. >>host: also another book not sees and good neighbors would is the topic? >> a little known episode from the second world war when the roosevelt and administration was worried in the german democratic populations there is about

1.5 million would rise up and take over the country but this was the concern widely shared in the security establishment of the joint army and navy planning board about the possibility the itelligence agencies were concerned the began a program that was lost to history and tell i recovered it under which the fbi was dispatched to look for the saboteurs and that america and the problem is the people generally did not speak german or spanish or they didn't know about the country's so you get your expense account and offering

good chief of police and that opened the system riddled with corruption where latin american dictators quickly realized this german who owns a farm this german who owns a farm take him away and then i can take his land and we brought 4,000 people of german origin and put them in a camp in texas but what i discovered is pretty soon mp commanders said who are you sending us? there spanish speakers, old men 80 jews who fled germany and picked up because they heard him speaking german on the street some of them already knew what it was like because they had been in another concentration camp and it was the precursor through guantanamo procession of the use of bounty hunters and global

services of denunciations to around the people who were then locked up in the system deliberately placed outside of judicial review and then we realize we have the wrong people. >> are be sensitive to the charge of anti-americanism? do we care? >> they do seem to have a long record not only it was a term that was fought over by the left and the re -- the bright as trying to quash dissent and social and

foreign policies in the united states handed became an official concern of the u.s. government during the secondwrld war when we began to try to have a scientific approach to analyzing the source of resistance in the united states to come up with policies to try to combat but it is of sloppy narrative that reduces from the sum total of our knowledge. a claims the whole diversity is the same and the problem that they have is it'll take like us are use reasoning but when we talk about that americans there hot blooded that is why they have a prottrit now because he fought of war with mexico and took half of the territory. with the international

dispute and it is a way to look at the world as a mayor. and we have a monologue the want them to tell us we're the fairest of them all. that makes for excellent series tales the very effective. >>host: we're talking with american university professor friedman rethinking anti-americanism. here is the cover of the book you are watching booktv on c-span2. >> if you tried to generate as say government silicon

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it's been that a lot of the questions i get about this book or y o i wrote the book passage of this subtitle kim big government ever be stopped? the first question i get is can it to? that their risk of discouraging you from buying the of book i will let you ower is yes but it is possible it can be stopped but first of all, there other questions that have to be addressed and in my book it is a story about one of the political prospects of limited government? one started writing the book we did not know who would be the next president but we did know it would be a relevant issue regardless of who won the election. i am a massachusetts native land i don't think there was any real danger government would get drastically smaller if romney was

elected president another shocking but i think it is clearly the record that is unlikely the survey there is no probability if obama was reelected and after the president's reelection a lot of conservatives and libertarians were demoralized particularly people whose thought that romney would win with a landslide or worried the obama real action had changed in the irreversible way and began to doubt has weekend shootout that he could be stopped. that is one of the reasons why i think having this discussion is important