Do you believe the United States' image has improved or declined in the last five years?

Question

Why?

How should the next president deal with it?

Answer 1

Any smart person would tell you our image has declined due to the endless war in Iraq.

Get a new President...our image will become so much better.

Answer 2

I feel in certain areas it has improved and declined...

The economy has gotten stronger the past five years post 9/11 due to large consumption. Foreign investors continue to see the US as a sound investment.

Operation Iraqi Freedom has had issues in Iraq the past few years and US image by foreign countries has declined even though our military is still the one of the largest and most professional forces in the world.

In all, I believe the image has stayed overall around the same...

Answer 3

I think it has unarguably declined. Shortly after 9/11 the US benefitted from an outpouring of support from all over the world - including some countries with whom relationships had been tainted. This support was squandered by US foreign policy that proved divisive. Even the language used was deliberately divisive (eg You are either with us or against us). Contempt for the UN security council, as well as dishonest reporting of the WMD situation leave many people feeling the war with Iraq is illegal. Inept handling of the war, along with an unwillingness to seek assistance have not helped.

Answer 4

It has declined. One of the reasons is because as a nation, we have not been good friends to our allies. We did what we wanted to do without heeding the advice of our allies. Britain has been a dear friend to the US and we have fully taken advantage of that. What other country now is going to do the right thing for us in the future? The first thing I would do is to repair our existing relationships with our allies first. Secondly, our nation needs to become the example of how a multicultural and multi ethnic country and work and be strong. Not through military force but through example. We should always maintain the strongest military in the world, no doubt. But I do believe in the addage to walk quietly and carry a big stick. As of late, we haven't walked quietly at all and have been inconsiderate of our allies.

Answer 5

Well , the USA tries to play big brother in every situation, my question is , don't we live in the same world? why should the US make its own decisions, when the rest of the world makes another?

Frankly, there are its good and its bads. USA has had it's own share of home grown catastrophes in the form of riots and hurricanes.

the next president should fully get the US to co-operate with the UN. 'Peace and not war'

I feel the past invasions by the US were not necessary. Just an oil game.

Answer 6

Declined. Ask the moron in the White House.

A good way for a new President to start would be do exactly the opposite of what the decider has done.

Answer 7

If the image has not improved, it would be because
we are a Nation divided now. After 911, we really
looked good and United, but soon the Media,
Liberals, and Democrats turned that all around
by downing our own government and it's leaders,
so from near and far, we looked too divided
to improve our image.

Answer 8

The image of the United States has not only declined, it has effaced!

Answer 9

It's declined....and where to begin on "why"?

We only dropped the ball on National Security, Immigration, Fiscal Responsibility, The "War" on Drugs, The War on "Terror", The War on Iraq, Rule of Law, Upholding the Constitution (Patriot Act, hello??), Protecting our Environment, Responding to Global Warming, Due Process of Law, Checks and Balances in Governance.....never mind Globalist Outsourcing and that Big Banking Friendly 1-2 Punch of *harsher* Bankruptcy Laws and Predatory Subprime Mortagage Lending.....

In short and in plain English....*Everything* that could have gone wrong, this side of nuclear armageddon, went wrong.

In all honesty, it will most likely take the next *three* presidencies *and* another World War against Islam before we can get close to undoing the damage that G.W. Bush has done.

But the Next President can stop the bleeding by:

--Nixing the Bush Tax Cuts, and *raising* taxes on the Corporations and the richest of the rich....*INCLUDING* Big Oil.

--Letting "fast track" authority on "Free Trade" issues die so that we can once again impose tariffs and levies as needed, in part to compensate for Halliburton's *robbing us blind* but also to rein in the worst excesses of both Big Oil and Outsourcing to Tax Shelter nations with No Labor Rights, Civil Rights or Environmental Standards.....

--Fully funding and enforcing labor and environmental protection laws so that people can feel secure that the hemhorraging *will* stop at some point on jobs and the environment. And then signing the Kyoto Accord or its replacement, so that we *can* do something *positive* about Global Warming.

--Get the hell out of Iraq. Bring the human beings home. Bomb the Piss out of them for a *year* and then let the psychos ROT. And then let the world know that *that* is the new foreign policy as regards the out-of-control Wahabbi Menace: Bomb them into the Stone Age *every time* an American dies, and *embargo* until people *starve--they live in a desert, it shouldn't take long for folks to get the point.

And in exchange for making sure people *get it* that America is not to be screwed with....we let Israel go its own way. It has its own military, so yeah, a policy of neither hindering nor *aiding them* might work.

--Stop the Hemhorrage at our border with Mexico. Stem the tide of *ILLEGAL* Immigrants, and tell the ones here that they are here *in defiance of the law* and that if they don't leave they *WILL* be imprisoned or *shot dead*. Really, people have become *too arrogant* on this issue. Illegal is Illegal. If you are not supposed to be here, leave, or at least *attempt* to work with the system so you can legally stay. *Don't* be a braying jackass about it and talk about Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico as "occupied Mexico" and all that garbage, *we won* that dispute over a century ago, *you lost*, it's OUR Nation, so deal with it.

--And finally....reform lobbying and campaign finance. Kick the CEOs the hell OUT of politics, and start doing things for *ordinary citizens* again without having to suck up to the suits *every single time*. Not just with the Minimum Wage....either *end Corporate Welfare entirely* or have the decency to *pay citizens* as much in individual welfare payments and services as you do your Corporate clients. As it stands, citizens only get a *nickel* on average for every *dollar* of largesse Big Business gets....and everyone *pisses and moans* endlessly, begrudging that *paltry nickel* in spite of a rising tide of homelessness, school shootings, drug addictions, and worse.....

So yeah, stop sucking up to the Corporate so much, and show some love for the Ordinary Citizen again, ok? And recognize that there *is* a difference between a Hand UP and a Hand OUT. Most of us that are left here and still poor need a Hand UP, a fair chance to get a decent, non-abusive job, and one that lets us *earn enough* to be truly self-sufficient.

In short.....recognize that the past 26 years of Reaganite, Cronyist Fatcat Big-Businessism have done most of us way more harm than good, and that some of it merits *undoing* even if it sounds "too liberal for words", oh the freakin' horror. O_O

Not that this will happen, people are too hellbent on bankrupting the nation and as many citizens in it as possible before they inflict their little "End of Days" prophetic phoniness on us all....

But hey, you asked, so why not give a real answer?

Thanks for your time! And God help us....

Answer 10

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