How Much of a Blow Has Bush's Presidency Been to American Prestige and Standing?

Question

On 9/12....people lit candles for us around the world. Probably the moment of highest respect and regard for the U.S. we have ever had.

What happened since?

Answer 1

His complete disregard of the Geneva Convention, the Iraqi war started for unclear and rather dubious reasons, and his outrageous contempt of the United Nations has reduced the USA's image to little more than that of an arrogant bully. He has done almost irrepairable damage to our relationships with our allies. We can only hope that 2008 will bring a chance to repair our relations and improve our image.

Answer 2

Since then we became arrogant and forgot the true victims of the attack on the world trade center. The tragedy has become an excuse for political fearmongering, intolerance and violence. We have insulted the international community who cried with us on September 11. It was an opportunity for the U S A to connect with the rest of the world and our cowboy (he's not my president) leader squandered the opportunity to further his own agenda.

...but when the dust settles - the world will know that many (if not most) Americans reflected deeply that day and felt profound humility and empathy for those who live with terror and violence on a daily basis.

That is my hope because I cannot tolerate the thought that the self serving actions of the U S will "rule the international day"

thanx,

Answer 3

Bush and the Republican government happened.

I'm Canadian, and I remember all too vividly watching that second plane fly into the World Trade Center. I remember thinking, "Everything has changed". Along with most of the planet, I hurt for the victims of the attack, their families, the American people, and really... for us all. Because in those few moments we all became aware of how vulnerable we were.

But George Bush didn't go after the terrorists responsible. He used the horror that 9/11 was to justify a war that would do little or nothing to remove the terrorist threat... quite the opposite, it has increased it. And why? To benefit corporate America.

Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi's dead, and thousands of American soldiers...dead. And for what? To grow and inflame terrorism against America, and to benefit the oil companies.

For those Americans who think that Bush has in any way alleviated terrorism in the world, or against America in particular... for those who believe that this war has in any way served as vengeance for 9/11... you are sadly mistaken. And the proof of that will become agonizingly apparent in the coming months and years.

Answer 4

America's prestige has been immeasurably damaged. To have gone from worldwide support to almost non-existant support in just a few years is due to the Bush Administration's handling of the tragedy of 9/11. Traditional allies, in fact countries from all over the globe, who were anxious to help the U.S. in its darkest moments were alienated by the switch from Bin Laden to Saddam and the subsequent invasion of Iraq. People wanted to help, but they didn't want to help to invade a country which had nothing to do with 9/11.

The integrity of the U.S. has taken a big hit. It will be years before future generations will bask in the glory of worldwide U.S. respect.

Answer 5

in all probability because of fact that's the only shitty presidency that the historians in my opinion lived via. except they have been alive for Hoover or Taylor or Tyler or Harrison or ******* grant. they might desire to remember Nixon, yet no, Bush is worse. Yeah, so he's retarded whilst it comprises national emergencies, yet so replaced into Hoover! Yeah, he trusted his generals, yet so did Taylor! to no longer say interior the least that i'm a Bush supporter or perhaps Republican. I do in basic terms no longer think of his blunders have been the worst or perhaps the 1st ones made.

Answer 6

What happened since is that the prestige America once enjoyed around the world has been tarnished, and the trust and respect we once enjoyed by many nations has been shattered.

This war in Iraq has caused a strengthening of Al Quada and drastic increase in Islamic extremism and hatred of the US. The legacy of this war will be that it made the world far less safe for the United States, and far safer for the terrorists.

Answer 7

Your question is like asking an AIDS victim how bothered he is by extreme weight loss. George Bush is a scoundrel. But Bill Clinton was also a scoundrel. It just so happens that Bush likes to be a scoundrel in warlike ways, whereas Clinton's scoundrelliness usually was more private and lascivious.

America has had a string of presidents who are scoundrels, and the problem isn't so much any particular one of them as it is with the process that has been elevating scoundrels, one after another, into the US Presidency. What's been doing that is a Zionist corruption of American politics, carried out by a collaboration among prominent Jews in the media and in the world of high finance. Until that corruption is eliminated, America will continue to get scoundrelly presidents.

Answer 8

Besides starting a war against the worlds advice, making fun of everyone who didnt join us in this war, making the US international bad guys by torturing, seizing people and holding them without trial, thumbing his nose at international treaties, making up dumb slogans. Oh and thats just outside the country we will not say anything about Katrina, wiretapping, and the loss of American jobs. Did I say that??

Answer 9

just look at the news reports, and focus in on how many have died because of bush's decisions. do you not count all those deaths as a blow?

Answer 10

how much Blow has bush done since he has been president?
I'd say at least an 8ball a day.