And the People's Daily was keen to blame America for any tension in the sea.
In the Obama administration, we have had the epitome of the Blame America First ideology.
Yet even by that twisted logic, it is an error to blame America's current-account deficit on China.
Many see ordinary Iraqis as the primary victims of the violence in the country and blame America.
Some groups the Communists, some Baathists and some Islamists bitterly blame America for the severe distress caused by sanctions.
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The "Blame America First" viewpoint surely has an even smaller constituency at home today than it had before September 11.
But the other strain of that is this whole idea of what Jeane Kirkpatrick, many years ago, called the Blame America First syndrome.
But the Iraqis blame America for worsening a pre-war unemployment rate of 50%, by abolishing the armed forces, and its legions of security and propaganda employees.
Arabs are dismayed by the near-collapse of the peace process and, not surprisingly, blame America for doing too little to get Israel to honour its obligations.
Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what's bad.
Other malcontents blame America for most of Japan's current woes.
Any countries that stumble this year will undoubtedly blame America.
At the heart of what his admirers describe as his "nuanced" approach to foreign and defense policy is an attitude towards American power that exemplifies the "blame America first" syndrome.
If America refuses, the Europeans can blame America for scuppering the new round and insist that within a narrow agenda there is no room for the trade-offs needed for agricultural liberalisation.
The real blame for America's current-account deficit lies with its lack of saving, not the Chinese yuan.
China's exchange rate is not to blame for America's huge current-account deficit.
The Fed's failure to curb bubbles, while aggressively easing policy when they burst, is partly to blame for America's imbalances, which could give the next Fed chairman a lot of grief.
In a vintage display of blame-America-firstism, Rep. McDermott went so far as to declare: "I think the president would mislead the American people" about the justifications for going to war with Iraq.
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Kennedy, George S. Patton, and George Washington labor to teach their subject about the greatness of this country, the absurdity of the "Blame-America-First" Left's toxic hatred for it and the opening the latter provides for Islamists bent on our destruction.
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First priority, as I said, is cooperation with America from a respectful and serious and careful attitude and not trying to teach the president of America or preach to the president of America or blame the president of America, but rather cooperate with him.
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The Pentagon says that fake American uniforms have been acquired for Iraqi militia, implying that they may commit atrocities and blame them on America.
However, special factors are largely to blame: first America's boom and then rising oil prices lifted the proportion of trade with countries outside the zone.
The more Israel and America blame it for goading on Hamas and Hizbullah, and the more insistently they accuse Iran's munitions experts of giving Hizbullah advice, the more proudly Iran struts the regional stage.
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Some blame clients from America's less-enlightened hinterland.
It was the subject of much debate and diplomacy at G20 summits, and the object of much blame and many bills in America's Congress.
At that juncture, of course, it will be easy enough - yea, even politically correct - to blame legislators who unilaterally disarmed America in critical ways.
And it allows Brussels to pin the blame for the banana war on America.
But if she deserves credit for this, she deserves blame for a comparable failure: America's early underestimation of Boris Yeltsin.
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