Original sentence: The usual criticisms were also levied, that America was enforcing sanctions against Iraq for oil, and attributing sinister motives to the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Serbia
Edited sentence: "Thus it is not surprising that as European integration has become a higher priority, European media outlets have engaged in increasing levels of anti-Americanism as a form of jingoistic differentiating from Europe's allyI watched the United States from France and Italy during the 1950s and '60s, and formed my opinion about it through the filter of the European press--which means my opinion was unfavorable.Criticisms extend as far as sports, with America on the one hand being held to be inferior for not participating in the world sport, Soccer, then also being vilified when it does:When the United States was chosen as host of the World Cup for the summer of 1994, many of the European news and entertainment media were appalled.Europeans at this time saw America as the land of McCarthyism and the execution of the Rosenbergs (who we then believed innocent), of racism and the Korean War, and a stranglehold on Europe itself.Even during this period when Europeans completely relied on the United States to protect them against Soviet imperialism, anti-Americanism was almost as virulent as it is today.For European leftists and the majority of intellectuals--who were likely to adhere to communist ideas--anti-Americanism was rational.Instead of rejoicing that the last important terra incognita for soccer was about to be conquered by the "beautiful game," Europeans loudly voiced the usual objections to American crassness, vulgarity, commercialism, and ignorance.The usual criticisms were also levied, that America was enforcing sanctions against Iraq (when it was really UN sanctions) for oil, and attributing sinister motives to the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Serbia.Then Vietnam became the principal reason to hate America.They argued that giving the tournament to the Americans was tantamount to degrading the game and its tradition.This crowd identified America with capitalism, and capitalism with evil.What was less rational was their wholesale swallowing of the most flagrant and stupid lies about American society and foreign policy, with a concomitant flight from accurate knowledge of the political systems that the U.was battling