Daniel Moynihan: “There is still a large number of countries in the world which have a reflexive anti-Americanism which they acquired…”

“There is still a large number of countries in the world which have a reflexive anti-Americanism which they acquired, one, in the cold war; or, two, in an early, independent, anticolonial mode that carried over somehow to the United States. In the case of the Philippines, it was direct anticolonialism, inasmuch as the Philippines was for a half a century a colony of the United States. I was once our permanent representative to the United Nations. Let me say to you that few have had a greater sense of this pattern of anti-Americanism than I did at that last moment of Soviet assertion in the world. It resulted in propositions such as the obscene resolution equating Zionism with racism. To get ahead of my argument a bit, let me say that resolution was repelled, Resolution 3379 of 1975.”