An American resident in Norway writes with this:

“We Americans who live here are not at all surprised by the weak-kneed response from the current Red/Green alliance…The current Finance Minister, Kristin Halvorsen, is the leader of SV (Socialistic Venstre Partiet- Social Left Party), and their official line during the recent election (as stated in their officially sanctioned party propaganda) was that the USA represented the single greatest current threat to world peace. Ms Halvorsen has never backed away from this line… SV’s antics do not stop here though; Ms Halvorsen just recently caused quite a stir by…urging the rank and file of SV to continue calling for a boycott of Israeli goods. While this ultimately resulted in a minor upheaval within [the government] coalition (the Labor Party Prime Minister publicly rebuked her)…there remains quite a bit of sympathy for this view…within the government (for example, the Defense Minister, Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, the former mayor of Bergen, publicly declared her support for this measure back in 2003 – I witnessed the anti-Israel rally where she made this statement)…While I could go on and on… I will leave you with my “favorite”. In December, 2004 Time Magazine announced that President Bush was their Man of the Year. The NRK (state owned TV/Radio outlet) talking head who had the pleasure of sharing this news during the nightly newscast quickly added, and with an ever so sly smirk on his face, that both Hitler and Stalin had received this honor as well…”

Charming.