He appreciates that freedom looms large in her political thinking, which shows no trace of anti-Americanism.
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Sheikh Rashid insists Musharraf's done all he can in the war on terror, facing down widespread anti-Americanism on Pakistan's streets.
Even so, with a general election in India due some time in the next 20 months, anti-Americanism remains a vote-winner.
Much blame for that should fall on European leaders stirring up anti-Americanism.
After the fallout over the 2003 war in Iraq, Mr Sarkozy carefully mended relations, taking a risk by confronting deep-seated French anti-Americanism.
Centre-right MEPs - the largest group in parliament - have been highly critical of the report, saying it is primarily motivated by anti-Americanism.
Thatcher, most British Conservative leaders after Churchill have shared a certain upper class anti-Americanism to which the current Conservative Leader, old-Etonian David Cameron, is not immune.
That reflects everything from tastes in food (Coca-Cola rather than Chianti) to holidays (Florida rather than Florence), and raises the suspicion that upper-class anti-Americanism may be surrogate snobbery.
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Our correspondent says Mr Zardari cannot accept any military activities which will increase the mood of anti-Americanism in his country and from his perspective make the fight against militancy more difficult.
When you talk about Islamophobia and anti-Americanism in a balanced fashion, when you ask the community to cooperate with the police in a very open-minded fashion, that that is what helps us go through this process.
According to this argument, it has been America's lack of consistency in its relations with allies and foes alike, and its sporadic attention to places such as the Middle East, that have allowed virulent anti-Americanism to fester.
Gen Kayani too has had to defend the army's relationship with the US as anger has grown about excessive US penetration of Pakistan's government and security establishment - even though some of the anti-Americanism has been whipped up by the military itself.
In both the Bush and the Obama Administrations, the leading agency in charge of this policy seems to be the State Department whose philosophy is to try to improve the image of the United States in Latin America in order to mitigate the effect of anti-Americanism in the area.
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Bush's views were nothing short of sacrilege not only for the Arabs and the Europeans, but for Washington's foreign policy establishment, headquartered at the State Department and the CIA. For the men and women of these bureaucracies, Bush's recognition that the Arab regimes they championed were the primary source of regional instability and anti-Americanism was a repudiation of everything they worked for.
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