Ygz makes a sound point about the folly of categorizing foreign actors as “pro-American” or “anti-American” when, for the most part, they’re following their own interests—and whether those interests coincide or conflict with ours is secondary. Actually, I’ve always thought the especially ingenious bit—which I suppose I tacitly endorse with that “ours” in the last sentence—was the way the tiny coterie of people who make potentially incendiary foreign policy decisions have managed to get themselves equated with “America.”  How many ordinary citizens had any particularly strong view, ex ante, about the desirability of ousting Mohammed Mossadeq, say? But to criticize that set of policy choices is “anti-American,” somehow, rather than “anti- the choices of the particular group of people in power at the time.”