Since Sept. 11 2001, has the international image of the United States improved or worsened? Stayed the same?

Question

I obviously have my opinions, but I would like to see what the Y! Answer community has to say about this.

Real Estate Para Legal, I don't quite follow you. How does the liberal left, as you call them, support Islamists? Do you mean that this precieved support damages America's international image? Please clarify.

BTW, I'm not American, so I don't exactly follow American domestic politics closely.

Allen, it is whatever you see it as. I used to be a telephone survey intervewer myself, so I'll hold to that kind of style. :-P If I clarify in what way, I risk skewing people's answers. I understand that people have different interpretations to this question, and answered according to that.

BTW, this question will be going to a vote, so you don't have to worry about how I see things.

Answer 1

It has worsened big time. The whole world hates us.

Answer 2

Anyone who actually believes that This country had a good image before 9-11 is a pumkin head. Sorry but, do you really believe this has all happened in the last 5 years?
Ever hear the phrase/title "Ugly American"?
Europe has always looked down thier noses at us "crazy, hillbilly, cowboys". We have always been infidels to the Middle East, Asians think of us as loud and obnoxious. Now, even Canadians think they are better than us. But, this country is the only country -- in the history of the world-- to wup the bad guys and then take care of the people they oppressed or misled. Please!! Someone!! show me I'm wrong-- just once. I am trying but can not think of one country (other than Viet Nam-- and soon, Iraq but we didn't win, we gave up) where we didn't rebuild and help. While you are at it, find me one country other than the US that didn't take the spoils and run-- unless we were there also. WWI left Germany in ruins-- did anyone other than the US help? We were only in it a year and we helped the winners and the losers. But, not enough to sow the seeds of hate that brought Hitler to power.
To directly answer the question, it has worsened since 9-11 but over all, it's like a one day drop in an already bad stock market. You with short memories and no knowledge of history can lay it all on Bush but:
Who will you "hatist" hate when Bush is gone?

Think this is new?

read this from Randy Newman written in 1971

No one likes us
I don't know why
We may not be perfect
But heaven knows we try
But all around even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens

We give them money
But are they grateful?
No they're spiteful
And they're hateful
They don't respect us, so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them

Answer 3

Everyone in the world supported the United States on September 11, 2001. Now the U.S. is suffering from a lack of prestige and leadership in the world.

This is largely due to the failure of the Iraq War. The war has been exposed as based on lies, and most of our early allies have withdrawn. Even the British are due to withdraw soon.

Once moderate Muslims have grown to hate the U.S. because of the atrocities in Iraq.

Once a leader in the struggle for clean air, the United States is now the only major industrialized country that has not ratified the Kyoto Treaty. It's a sad comment that India and China have followed the U.S. lead in this area.

The U.S. is also the only major democracy that still allows capital punishment. China and Iran sadly follow us in this area.

The U.S. stood by during the recent Israeli-Lebanese war. We were once leaders for peace in the Middle East, but no more.

Hugo Chavez drew larger crowds than George Bush on their recent tours of Latin America. It's easy to see who is better liked.

Answer 4

When 9/11 happened it shocked the world and for once the world felt it should look out for America who were stunned and also very patriotic (which is one thing I really admire about Americans)and the world was behind Bush going to Afghanistan to find Osama but he used that sympathy to finish what his father should have finished and treated the rest of the world as his lackeys and expected them to back him all the way in Iraq and returned to being the international bullies that brought on 9/11 in the first place.

Answer 5

It's much, much worse. Prior to 2001, people around the world (for the most part) genuinely liked America and Americans. On 9-11 they felt very bad for us. Since then, we as a nation are not very well liked. In particular Bush. With his "you're either with us or against us" mentallity, he has mad a lot of enemies. Of course the Iraq fiasco didn't help. A typical example of dislike for Bush is how the Mayans will be doing a spiritual cleanse of the ruins after Bush visits there.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N09305229.htm

Answer 6

After 9/11 every newspaper in the country was printing flags for your front window. We were a country scared to death of the next attack and we were going to go bomb somebody.

Enter President Bush
"I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."

He issued the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, where bin Laden was operating, an ultimatum to "hand over the terrorists, or ... share in their fate."

The world said OK we have your back !

Later

A "coalition of the willing". Invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003 to remove Saddam from power. On May 1, 2003, President Bush declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq in a speech from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in his famous "Mission Accomplished" speech.

After that our international image worsened.

Answer 7

Let's not judge by what people say, but by what they do.

Of all the countries on earth, which is the number one choice of immigrants throughout the world? The United States.

How many other countries on earth have a problem with so many people trying to sneak in rather than escape?

Many people in the world are bitter about the amount of wealth the United States flaunts, but mostly because they don't have it.

Many have been subjected to false economic theories, like there is only so much wealth to go around. They believe that if we have it, they can;t have it too.

Of course, any country who chooses to allow their citizens the same freedoms and opportunities can achieve exactly the same thing, without diminishing the wealth of the United States at all.

Governments use this propaganda to enslave their constituents. When people come to America and discover the truth, they are often flabbergasted.

Answer 8

when the planes hit the World Trade Centre (i refuse to call them the twin towers, or "towers", as the media seems to want to force on the world),
i felt for the people in the towers, for the families left behind, and for you as a country, as no warning was given (officially) and because the attack was directly against civillians. (although, technically so was Hiroshima, but we wont get bogged down by that here).
I even supported you when you went after Bin Laden, because it seemed you had undeniable proof.
then you tried to link Bin Laden with Sadam......
and scholars and diplomats all over the world (except from australia, england and the US) sat up, and made the clear point that bin laden and sadam had tried to form an aliance years ago, but that they hated each other.
ok. so that didnt work. but you tried, thats the main thing.
then there was the weapons of mass destruction.
either you convinced the australian government that they were there, or they were lying with you.
either way.
there were no weapons of mass destruction, probably hadnt been since the war against Kuwait and Independent Kurdistan.
thats were you lost me.
people being sent to another country to fight a war for a reason you knew didnt exist. (when i say you, i dont meen you personally, i mean your government).
then you were in there to help the people.
when you bombed Iraq back to the stone age in desert fox, and "shock and awe", or whatever it was called how high on your list of priorities was helping people?
You guys have made a serious stuff up in international affairs, but the australian government went along for the ride, so we are not without blame ourselves.
alot of work needs to be done, but it is salvagable.
just not with the current adminstrations in our respective countries

Answer 9

Our international image has suffered, or at the very least we are seeing our first glimpses of how we are truly seen. We seems be a citizenship intimidated not to exercise our rights led by a government whose direction thus far has left much to be desired and clarity does not seem to be in our near future.

Answer 10

"Left Libbies" As one of the right wingers had to say, are certainly in no way responsible for the image that the United States is suffering under at this time, get real, The Bush administration is solely responsible for our country being the most hated in the world...Our so called democracy, where we cannot stop one man from jumping off a cliff and involving us in a war of his own design is a travisty beyond any in our history...We have a clear duty to elliminate this type of grand-standing by our government officials and seeing that it can never happen again!!!!!!!!!

Answer 11

The big love in ended very quickly. I think people are tired of having US news and policy rammed down their throats. Which does the good American people a disservice. Plus all the 9/11 conspiracy nut jobs do not help the cause.