BBC News | FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT | Tension and courtesy in Islamabad Banner urged America: “Think – why are you so hated around the world?”
“These are not extreme, wild, unrepresentative examples – the hostility spans the classes. A banker said to me: “The attack on New York was repaying America in the same coin.” He thinks the Americans are astonishingly and dangerously solipsistic -apparently unable to comprehend grief unless it is their own.
“Remember the Iran airbus?” he asked me – deliberately shot down over the gulf by the USS Vincennes despite the ship’s radar showing conclusively that it was not a fighter plane on a hostile course. “Did the Americans weep for those 200 dead?” he asked. “Tears of the same colour whoever is weeping? Grief makes the same pain.’”