So much for the hope that “America's standing in the world would immediately rebound when the Bush administration rode into the sunset,” said the Los Angeles Times in an editorial. Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman echoed a sentiment shared by many abroad when, onstage at California’s Disney Hall, he lambasted the U.S. military for trying to “control the world,” and called on America to “get your hands off my country.”
Hey, celebrities have a right to their opinions, said Don Surber in the Charleston, W.V., Daily Mail, but Zimerman's threat to stay out of the U.S.—once his tour is over, of course—seems like a marketing ploy. Like the Dixie Chicks, Zimerman may just be out to ingratiate himself with left-wingers. “When the Soviet Union actually occupied his nation, did he ever rail publicly against the occupiers?”
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