Smiley’s (Anti-American) People:

“Anyone can see what happened in Iraq. It was nothing more than a war of colonial conquest fought for oil, ‘dressed up as a crusade for Western life and liberty,’ and its authors were ‘a clique of war-hungry Judeo-Christian geopolitical fantasists who hijacked the media and exploited America’s post-9/11 psychopathy.’

These words are spoken in John Le Carré’s new novel ‘Absolute Friends” (Little, Brown, 2004). And although it is usually philistine and unfair to blame a novelist for what his fictional creations say, in this case the speaker expressing those opinions is plainly a point-of-view character – there is a vein of anti-Americanism running through his novels from nearly 40 years ago – and the opinions are shared by plenty of Europeans, the English among them.” —New York Times