David's Medienkritik is always an interesting source. Recently, he posted a German & English article covering Anti-Americanism in Germany, and German - U.S. relations. The resulting discussion was exceptional, with participation from both sides of the Atlantic and an impressive level of frankess and intellectual honesty.
As in interesting aside, historian Stephen Ambrose noted in Band of Brothers that of all the cultures and people Americans came into contact with during WWII, the Germans (divorced from their political ideologies) and Dutch were the most popular.
UPDATE: For a similar examination of the modern Middle East, our Cairo correspondent Tarek Heggy begins an interesting series today on "The Future of the Moslem Mind."
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