Is it just me or the people in this world that hate the US are the biggest hypocrits?

Question

Time after time we are scrutinized for the stuff we do. We are hated by so many countries and its always about the US does this and the US does that. Yes I know people, we are not perfect, but name a country that is. But the countries and even the liberals in our own country think we are the evil ones, when really its the enemies we fight. Do we not get that? Do you not get that we help so many more than we hurt or are you just insistant that you find only the negative in everything we do? Most of the countries that despise us are way worse than us in other instances, yet its always about what we do wrong. I can't stand it, is the world really this dumb?

Answer 1

Too bad people have forgotten this:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gordonsinclair.htm

Answer 2

The reason the world is more and more looking at the US as an enemy is not because they don't appreciate help when they get it. It's because the motives for why the US is getting involved that are the problem. American companies are getting richer by the day because of US policy in, among other places the Middle East.

There are always at least two sides to every conflict and both of them will believe they are right. When the specter of corporate greed is brought into the mix things become very volatile. How can you convince someone they lost their house for a good cause, when the one pulling the trigger is getting rich of your misery.

Remember, this is perception and any evidence you may have to the contrary is not relevant. After all, it's not like the oil companies are saying they will find other sources of energy to help relieve some of the pressure on the oil countries.

To hold the position the US is trying to hold, they must hold themselves above. If they are only seen has one more group trying to enforce their will, they become no better than any other. The best motives in the world cannot fight the specter of perception

Answer 3

Hypocrisy is spread fairly evenly in human nature. So in raw terms, being the biggest gorilla in the room automatically puts America near the top of the Hypocritical Hit Parade.

Given the extra boost from conservative-Christian-republicans has the White House signing ‘Can’t Touch This’ all night long.

Abu Ghraib was the greatest single expression of hypocrisy ever, hands down.

Bush was always going to fail in Iraq (every Middle East expert in the world knew would unleash a civil war and destabilize the region. But, so what? A little failure is no big deal. However, Abu Ghraib took what could have been just your everyday kind of “whoops, we invaded the wrong country, sorry” mistake and tuned it into a catastrophic disaster and total defeat.

We would have done less damage to ourselves if we had bombed every Mosque in Iraq into tiny pieces. Then, we would have been seen merely as as**oles. Abu Ghraib was the single most critical thing that we could never allow to happen – and, yet, it never crossed the minds of Larry, Curley, Moe, and Zippy the-pinhead-prez.

After more than 200 years, inheriting the Presidency from Clinton who had restored the United States to a level of international prestige, admiration and respect not seen since the 1950’s, and receiving absolute support to hunt down and kill the terrorists who attacked us (including countries like Syria and Iran – Iranians protested in the streets AGAINST the terrorists and FOR the United States (for which Bush rewarded them with the Axis of Evil crap)) Bush, via mostly Abu Ghraib, in a few short months completely destroyed the integrity, honor, and dignity of our nation by turning America into the most hypocritical nation that has ever existed.

Because of Bush, America’s word means nothing, everywhere. We are the King of peace who tortures indiscriminately (guilty or innocent – we torture both equally and without prejudice). Making countries mad is nothing, because you can still demand respect if you are honest and forthright. However, when you loose you honor you have nothing – and it is harder to restore.

Honor cannot be won back, it must be earned. Now it is in the hands of the rest of the world to decide if we are ever trusted again. And even though we are still the biggest kid in the schoolyard, we cannot stand alone against everyone. They will bleed and weaken us until we are nothing but a fat cow ready for slaughter.

That is how history will judge Bush and the conservative religious and political hypocritical scum who have supported him and destroyed everything out Founding Fathers believed in and tried to achieve.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have told one truth at the UN – Bush may be the Devil.

Answer 4

Our foreign policy. A fabricated war on terror. An arrogant/inept approach to world and domestic issues, bullying, lying, torturing...shall I go on? This is not about Americans. This is about pragmatic, neoconservative elites who have prompted the hatred against us. It is their policies that led to 9/11. This belief that we are better than everyone else. Have other countries done the same? Yes they have. Are other countries also victims of bad leadership? Yes they are. Are we the ones who insist that everyone else practice liberty and become democratic at any cost? We had the advantage after 9/11 and sympathy from the entire world. We squandered that by attacking Afghanistan and Iraq. No results have been produced. Just death and more terrorism.

Answer 5

Many from different countries don't have what we have and then they start the blame, game. Propaganda is on a rampage and that doesn't help. If we don't combat the hate that has been driven against our country, then we will fall down. We need to stand together , United and drive this evil force out of here. Also satan is on a rampage . Many in our country, really don't know who to support and who not to. They are not loyal and hopefully the time will never come, where we have to fight together to gain back our own country. I say to anyone, if ya don't like it here, then go to another country. Go to the one you brag about. I'll bet you any money, that once they have left American soil, they will not survive.

Answer 6

I sympathize with your position and have a little bit more to add. I think it is a slap in the face and morally reprehensible when you have a 3rd world leader quoting from our liberal "leaders"...and I use the term leaders loosely. It is a shame that we allow such treason from not only our citizens, but it is a crime when it is people in positions of leadership in this country to slander our beloved country without any punishment. I am of course, a proponent of free speech, but I also believe with the ability to speak freely comes the accountability for your words. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with policy, but there is something wrong when the enemies of this country are using it to embarrass our country.

Answer 7

In the wake of historic and recent events I realized that I am an isolationist when it comes to peoples opinion of the USA. I could care less what someone, thousands of miles away, thinks of us. In many cases that hatred is fostered at an early age. Think of this as a form of racism. It is blind hatred that people cling to to say, "That (the United States) is our problem."

People from Middle Eastern countries harbor this resentment because of our aliance with Isreal. They feel that we ripped the land out from under them and gave it to some infidels; not to mention trillions of dollars, and arms that the Isrealis use in order to defend themselves from the threat in that area.

Another reason is jealousy. They all wish they had what we have; for example, an ability to speak out freely against our government, to change our leadership when things aren't going so well, a right to chose whether or not you believe in a higher power (ie. God, Allah, Vishnu, or whatever) and other aspects such as our dominance in many sports that the world plays (which I feel is vain, and pathetic).

That is why I say forget them and let's just worry about the opinions of Americans when it comes to America. As for the people who have negative opinions of the USA living in America, it is their right and I am willing to die in order to protect it.

Answer 8

I am thinking the patriotic / jingoistic opportunists seeking wealth at the expense of others and the rest of the world are the real hypocrates. The one's who preach how the ends justify the means are hypocritacal.

Answer 9

I agree completely, but I have long ago stop caring about what the rest of the world is saying. You don't see Americans standing in line to immigrate to those countries, but they would
do anything to come here.

Answer 10

The ones that hate the US are being told to hate the US. Of course we have those right in this country who are more than willing to blame the US for everything bad in the world. Most of this is just propaganda and a media thing. We are the big kid on the block and so they are going to pick on us. It doesn't bother me one way or the other, I don't really care what people think.

Answer 11

mmmm, I come from a country that you really helped.
With your blessing ( and your weapons) your little friends destroyed my country in 4 weeks, displaced the third of my people, killed thousands... and achieved what again?
You nice people you...with friends like that who needs ennemies.
I'm a christian Lebanese so not pro hizbollah, but please don't sell me that "fighting world terrorism" rubbish.
If you need to go after your ennemy, he is not in lebanon, in irak, in Africa, in south america... look for him, do what needs to be done , maybe then you can justify your barbarism to the rest of us.