Did George Bush squander the genuine sympathy the world felt for America after 9/11?

Question

I live in the UK, we all felt great sympathy after 9/11, I remember through the UN we went into Aghanistan, and then George Bush went into Iraq to impress his Dad! lies all the way it now appears and dirty tricks. It now looks as if we are going to lose this war and great trouble will now follow!!

"Freedom fries" Hah!!!

Answer 1

Sad to say, you are 100% right. Our president (I'm American) did even wors on this score. After 9/11, the United States not only had the sympathy of most of the world--which Bush has indeed squandered--we had the support f most of the Muslim world--even for the invasion of Afghanistan.

We had an opportunity--then--to forge a genuine bond and friendship with the Arabic and other Muslim peoples. They dd not support the terrorists--and even thos who had turned a blind ey e to previous outrages were unable to stomach 9/11.

Now--after the abysmal mess we've made in Afghanistan--after the unwarrenteed invasion of Iraq--after Bush openly supported a scorched earth assult on the Lebanese Muslim population "excused" as a response by Israel to Hezbolla crimes--after all that, very few Muslims (or anyone else) has any sympathy left for us. Nor is that surprising--that sympathy is going to the victims of Bush's policies.

Note, however PLEASE! This is NOT the American people generally. We made that clear when we started the process of getting rid of the cabal around Bush last Nov.7. Our Congress is doing everything it can to rein in their excesses. And we will finish the job in 2008--if not before.

Answer 2

Everyone in the world felt sympathy for the victims of 9/11. Though, there is a problem. Bush exploited the feeling of so many people who wanted justice or revenge right after those attacks, he immediately accused someone and the feeling of revenge did not allow the people to see beyond their nose, they believed Bush and followed him in a war against an invisible enemy that will go on for ever. They accepted what their president said without any second thoughts and this is a normal reaction, it is like when the police arrests a mass murderer that has caused a lot of pain, the moment he is arrested everyone else says that this monster must die but afterwards people think that the death penalty might have some bad points or maybe the man that was arrested is innocent, they might caught the wrong guy. For me Bush is as criminal as those who threw the plains on the twin towers. For some people things are even worse because they say that USA government is not so innocent according to this really sad event.

Answer 3

Hello,

(ANS) YES! I think George Bush definately squandered the genuine sympathy that most of the western world felt for the USA in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. I personally think president Bush exemplafies the worst kind of right wing conservative christian arrogance that comes out of the US.

**This attitude of arrogance is typified by the idea of a war on terrorism which is a non sense, you cannot have a war on terrorism its a contradiction in terms. Bushes thinking is out of date and shows he doesnt understand the nature of what he's up against in Al Quaeda & Bin Lardin.

**Bushes ideas also typifies the macho, gung ho shot first think later, gun slinging kind of culture that is america (if thats so called american freedom then I dont want it). So I have little sympathy for the utter mess they have themselves bogged down in now in Iraq.

**The really sickening part is that Blair lied to the UK people and now have become bogged down in the same mess too. But thats Blairs arrogance too (but they are both christians so what do you expect?).

**It IS a clash of cultures, its the crusades all over again between muslim fundamentalists & christian fundamentalists.

**The only way out of the mess is regime change in the US & UK?

IR

Answer 4

I agree that America squandered the sympathy after 9/11. The war in Afghanistan is right, but going into Iraq was a mistake. I don't think Bush did it to impress his Dad, but simply because he was daft enough to listen to Cheney and Rumsfield who seem to think war is the answer to every problem America has.

Answer 5

Bush=@ϒ$€hole. 911 was a tragedy. The CIA and FBI just don't know what they are doing. They harvest so much information, that it masks what they should be looking for. Their methods are lazy and don't serve the American peoples interests. The people outside in the real world can't make up their minds whether to laugh at them or be annoyed that they are sifting through everybody's personal messages and whatever else they can lay their greasy hands on.

Answer 6

Yeah.Most of the planet felt sorry for the USA on 9/11.

Now most of the world hates it and all cos of Dubya.

Answer 7

I believe he did, everything has now changed people were deeply saddened by 9/11 it was a cowardly act one that was despised all over the world, but now Bush is hated and the American people are tarred with the same brush.
Here In the UK, Blair has no balls, you can see fear and uncertainty in his eyes when hes questioned, Compare the difference between Churchill,Mrs Thatcher and Blair. "Tony no balls"&"george sum village has lost its idiot Bush"

Answer 8

I don't think people generally feel less sympathy for the American public but are utterly mystified by the administrations actions afterwards. All people, not just Americans, were sold a pup regarding Iraq and the consequences are not yet known, but very few of them are good.

Answer 9

Yes, he did. And no, Bush never went to impress his Daddy he went for three very different reasons:
1. REVENGE...Saddam threatened to kill his Dad.
2. Because they have oil reserves BIG time and it made it possible for his buddies in the oil industry to put a monopoly on the price of gas.
3. Because the NeoCons of the PNAC told him to attack Iraq...Chaney and Rummy were behind him 110%...Yes, all the very same people who gave Iraq and Saddam the weapons that Saddam used on his own people. Ironic, No?

Answer 10

Yes, GWB and Congress made a huge mistake by closing our borders and not accepting assistence.

As far as a Brit making cutting remarks about MY President, EAT **IT AND DIE, YOU PUKE !!!!! And take the useless piece of crap UN with you !!!!!

That being said, thank you to all the Coalition countries for participating in Iraq.