Do you think the US can ever be the good guys again?

Question

Right after WWll we were considered heroes all over the world--helping to rebuild Japan and Germany and things like that. Now it seems like the whole world hates us--with or without reason, I'm not asking that. What would it take for us to regain our reputation as good, honorable people in the eyes of the world?
Please don't be rude or silly. I'm quite serious about this and would like to hear some honest, thoughtful opinions.

Answer 1

I appreciate your question and have thought about this as well. If we want to improve our image, we need to stop getting into wars and using our military and unethical tactics to push everyone around. We are the only superpower of the world. We need to have honest, intelligent leadership. We need to be the helping hand of "daddy" for the world and not the mean bully who wants to steal everyone's lunch money.

Don't get me wrong. I love what our country is SUPPOSED to stand for. I cherish and honor our Constitution and the spirit of America, but if you look at our history, there are so many times when we have done questionable and immoral things to accomplish our objectives.

It has been said that our government is capable of more evil than any nation in the history of the world. Our leader is a seen as an idiot, but I think that is an act to cover his brilliance as a great deceiver and manipulator. The lovable idiot character works with some because instead of seriously questioning his actions, we just say "wow, what an idiot" and laugh at him.

So, to improve our image, we need to stop using our military for destructive purposes that serve ONLY RICH PEOPLE who profit from wars and start using our military for humanitarian reasons and TRUE self-defense. We need to see ourselves as an important PART of the world instead of the absolute authority in the world. We need to respect other cultures and stop acting like the American way of life is the ONLY life.

I love what America is SUPPOSED to be, but I think our government has done some horrible things to achieve our status and these actions come back to haunt us too often.

I understand that many Americans will disagree with me or think I’m not patriotic. Nothing could be further from the truth. My patriotism stands firm with our land, the people, and the American ideals of freedom, truth, and justice, but NOT with liars and manipulators who would cause great harm to us to further their own selfish agenda or dreams for a one-government world.

Answer 2

Being British and speaking to people and what I was taught in schools I have a very different idea of the American fondness after the war. I've always been led to believe that most people did not want or like the Americans during the war but "put up with them" due to necessity. This feeling of annoyance grew into a deep dislike almost hatred after the way America treated the UK after the war.

America has, in recent years, removed itself from hiding behind its closed doors and started interacting with the world around them, I would say around mid to late 80's this started. The American image has improved greatly during this time, but Americans seemed shocked by how little the outside world thought of them.

I could be wrong but the more America mixes with other nations the better the image of America is going to be portrayed within these nations.

Answer 3

Back in track. But I don't think so. The regime now seem more likely to be more sly. Do you consider that the world is giving threat to her.
Is only her feelings of speculation and assumption. Now the direction is overwhelm by anti-Americans sentiment.
Total different ideology the west and the middle east.
The world want to have equal rights.
Not you have the nuclear, or they must have not.
Korean feel that this is unjustified. You one day find the world will be shocked again by what Hiroshima and Nagasaki experience.
They say you have wakened the giant.
So to say. No peace will withhold not if you giving false presumption and pessimist towards others.
The world are force to believe. Just for the technologies they created.

Answer 4

The U.S. already is.

"AN IRAQI boy hides behind a US soldier in the moments after a suicide car bomber killed 21 people in a Baghdad shopping street. He looked for protection from the 82nd Airborne division trooper after shots rang out following the blast, which injured 66 people near a Sunni shrine yesterday lunchtime."--Daily Record

There is an online picture that went with that tag but it looks like somebody took it down (biased?).
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news;_ylt=A9j8eu7mUl1GU1gBHjDQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBhNjRqazhxBHNlYwNzZWFyY2g-?p=%22hides+behind%22+&c=&x=wrt

There are few troops around the world where the civilans would walk around or hide behind them when there was shooting going on.

Mexico's population is upset they can't get enough green cards (which are no longer green) to the U.S. and complaints by foreigners it takes to long to become a U.S. citizen. In Columbia there is a mural where the U.S. is showned as the promised land. The number one illegal alien group in New York is the British. If people hate the U.S., they hate their own country more.

Answer 5

Europeans were very pleased when the US joined the European fronts during WWII, and were perhaps even more elated when the US handed out millions in foreign aid to worn-torn countries to assist the reconstruction process.

Now European countries hate us for doing almost the same exact thing, but to Iraq this time.

Conclusion? You can't take what they say all too seriously. They're fundamentally self-interested whiners who welcome US intervention and wealth when both benefit them, but call US intervention in other parts of the world "imperialism," especially when they're making profit off the status quo (see: Oil for Food). I guess they'd know all about imperialism!

Honestly, I don't much care what the rest of the world has to say about the United States. We have our problems, just like every other country, but think of all the things our government does for countries and people around the world for completely humanitarian reasons.

Answer 6

the world doesn't hate us...if it did we wouldn't be trading with so many countries or have political ties with them...all the hate you hear is only because the Internet give more voices to people...i live in a foreign country...i am an American...the only people i find who really hate America...are liberal Americans...it makes me sick to think some look at them and think all Americans think that way about America...the Internet has also given a voice to Muslims in countries who have always hated the west...but they have been blaming America for every problem...you know bad news sells more than good news...just think of it that way...

Answer 7

It will take awhile to put Iraq behind us and get some respect back. That is OK, though the administration IS NOT America!

I think we do a lot of good all over the world, and a lot bad. unfortunately, I think greed, usually corporate, has a strong hold on many politicians. We need to put business back in their place. They do not rule the world, though I am sure they would like to own every square inch!

Answer 8

Yes, I do think that we can be the good guys again, but it will take a great deal of work, and it will take a real understanding, by the majority, of what is truly needed, and what is truly righteous! We will need to evolve to a higher level of enlightenment, than we have so far reached.

I have to add that I think the answer above me, posted by Roger, is outstanding! *sm*

Answer 9

Who gives a rats *** what the rest of the world thinks about us? Don't worry, at the first sign of trouble we'll be everyones best friend again.

Answer 10

Our country should stop being so arrogant. Who says that our way government is right for other places in the world. Just because it sort of works here,doesn't mean it'll work anywhere else.