Those hated Americans......?

Question

I'm not at all surprised at the fact that so many people of other cultures despise Americans. I am American but I agree, our government needs to keep it's nose in it's own business.

I want to know WHY everyone thinks that all Americans represent what they see in our government. Do other people realize that just because our government does something, it doesn't mean that we all support it?

What if the powers that be (in the US) turned on it's own citizens? Would the rest of the world be happy? Or would anyone jump in and try to help?

Wow, I've just been shown many prime examples of why other nations hate Americans. It's unfortunate that many of you were so quick to judge and missed what I was saying COMPLETELY.

Answer 1

So, you weren't around for the '60s huh? That's cool, Eugene Burdick's and William J. Lederer's "The Ugly American" is about to turn 50. Ever heard of it? Ever read it? You can be fairly sure that on the outside chance that any of our fearless leaders ever picked it up, they didn't get it. So it goes.

To George C and enviroman:

First, your thumbs down don't come from me. I respect your First Amendments rights too much to be so petty. Try to get past the brainwashing to which you (George) subjected yourself at Parris Island (assuming you deserve to use your sign-off and you didn't pick it up from R Lee Emery) and read a little about why the Japanese felt compelled to attack Pearl (even knowing it would likely result in Japanese defeat if it did not produce the immediate treaty they hoped for). As to Germany, read a little about the so-called "Neutrality Acts" of the 30s and the Nazi response. Don't you wonder why, when the first act didn't meet FDR's expectations, it was amended so we could more easily arm the Brits and sink German ships while claiming to have not taken sides. And when that didn't work, we dumped the Acts and went to "cash and carry", then "boats for bases", then "Lend Lease". Then FDR bragged on the radio in his Fireside Chat of 9/11/44 (a day which now lives in infamy?) that he had issued orders to sink German warships on sight without provocation if they wandered into our territorial waters (which he claimed extended to the coast of Ireland)? Finally, on December 11, 1944, Hitler declared war - but don't kid yourself that he did so without provocation. Read his declaration of war, then check his facts. Sure, he exaggerated, just as our fearless leaders are so prone to do, but his basic facts were dead on correct. OK, then you probably think the US played a major role in beating the Germans and the Russian winter turned the tide on the Eastern front. It simply takes too long to explain the idiocy of either of those erroneous conclusions, but the casualty figures, the dates of the battles, the numbers and quality of troops and the quality of equipment involved in each front speak (nay, scream) for themselves. For instance, at Normandy, the allies faced about 380,000 second and third rate troops (many of whom were not released to join the fight) whereas at Kursk, the Red Army turned back 1.3 MILLION of the Wehrmacht's elite (in the summer - thank you. So much for old man winter and his frosty little help). Ah, but the Soviet Operation Mars DID fail because it was launched too late and in December, when the Volga froze, Soviet logistical support froze too. Score one for the weather - but the tally is a "W" on the German side.) The incompetent commies then took on 850 thousand more of Hitler's best at Smolensk II in August and kicked even more serious butt. The US wasn't even in Sicily yet when Khursk went down and had barely landed when Smolensk II got underway. Maybe that's why the US suffered all of 1,465 dead, 5,138 wounded, missing or captured at Normandy and US troop dead was only about 295,000 overall in Europe and the Pacific combined, against 10 MILLION dead Soviet troops, 6 MILLION dead Germans, and at least 2 MILLION Chinese (and many of the additional 10 MILLION Chinese civilian dead were actually acting as militia and freedom fighters. Americans don't die in large numbers in war. Never have, never will. Uncle Sam leaves the fighting and dying to others whenever possible. The statistics prove that, John Wayne and Rambo notwithstanding.

When the body bags start coming home, Americans scream to pull out and quit. Always have, from the Revolution on. Check it out, it may shock and surprise you. But that is THE one predictable constant about the USA and war. Now that we have realized what the simple, basic history of Afghanistan and Iraq so obviously told us 6 years ago, that those invasions are doomed to fail, now that we have created a power vacuum in the Middle East that must be filled somehow by someone, now that the inevitable has come to pass, no that the inevitable ethnic and religious war is underway in Iraq, now the Iran and the Saudis are chomping at the bit to move in and grab that oil, everyone wants out because, lo and behold, Americans are dying. Never mind that it was illegal, immoral and unjustified to go in - pulling out now and leaving behind the abysmal mess (the same one I and the 2% or so of the population who shared like thoughts predicted way back when) we have created before it is fixed would be more wrong, more obscene, than going in in the first place. Hey, folks, when you get your way and you get the war you are so vociferously demanding, people are going to die and some of the corpses are going to be wrapped in the red, white and blue. Duh. And if we pull out now, before the mess is cleaned up and some sense of order is restored, watch what happens next and see how many of our boys die when we have no choice but to go back and fight the real war which will come. Get your hybribs and electric cars now, because when the Saudi oil gets shut off, your SUV ain't gonna be able to eat. And if you want to see it, get to the Wailing wall soon because you might not be able to then, assuming it still exists.

But I digress. So, the Japanese weren't provoked either? All those US violations of the numerous treaties about which the Japanese complained (US response was NOT denial - it was convoluted and bogus 'justification') didn't give Japan reason to want to defend herself or to react. Sending troops, supplies, equipment and other aid to the Chinese for use against the Japanese (while claiming 'neutrality') was, I suppose, diplomacy in action and a quest for peace. Sharpening the US knife at Japan's throat and loading the US gun aimed at Japan's head from 1937 on by beefing up the bases at Guam, Wake, Midway, Subic Bay, Clark Field and Pearl, reactivating MacArthur and sending him with his 15,000 jarheads to Manila Bay and otherwise preparing for aggression against the Rising Sun and rattling the American sabre were all overtures of peace too, right? Oops, when Sammie does it, it's okay. When the target responds and shoots back, those devils need to be erased from the roll call of humanity. I keep forgetting that part. Not to worry, the Pentagon, the White House and Congress rembembers. Too bad the rest of the world doesn't share the delusion, eh?

You mention Korea. OK, did you ever wonder why the US and the USSR chose to divide it up when they took it from Japan in 1945 rather than to give it back to the Koreans. Oops, that's right, the treaties and agreements required unification and internationally supervised elections, but not until 1950. Well, why didn't those elections take place? Oh, yeah, I remember. The US, the home of the free, the land of the brave, the cradle of modern democracy and that protector of the democratic process and the rights of Man the world over refused to let them happen. Washington realized the communists were going to win. The elections were only due 57 years ago. What's a delay of a couple generations? I'm sure the people and their governments don't care and they thank the US for saving them the effort and cost of holding them. Hey, if the will of the people is so important and if they don't want to be communists and If they want to be US allies, why not just let them vote for a government as required by treaty and international law and let the will of the people speak. I suppose if we wait long enough and kill enough of them, Washington can win at the polls.

When you were in Nam, if you were (I find that most people who really went generally don't bring it up, and those that do mention it (brag about it?) either weren't there or if they were, they were never in harm's way or under fire) did you once wonder why the elections to unify that nation never happened until the US left? The Geneva accords of 1954 required them to be held in '56. Of course, in '56 (and thereafter) it was clear that Ho Chi Minh and the communists were going to carry the day at the polls. The US, meanwhile, talked things over with the French. DeGaulle really only had two things to say. First, he warned Ike "Don't go there, you can't win." (like the centuries of history in the region didn't make that so blatantly obvious that a blind man could see it?). When US hubris ignored French experience and centuries of Southeast Asian history and tradition, DeGaulle then tried to help again, cautioning Washington to avoid Diem, saying he was not only incompetent but that he was a madman to boot. So, what puppet did Uncle tie the strings too? You gotta remember Diem. He's the maniacal, paranoid bloodthirsty tyrant the CIA and US military were ordered by both Ike and JFK to protect during his reign as the 'democratically elected' president of South Vietnam (and surely you know the tales of woe that sorta muffled the voice of the people during that exercise in US sponsored democracy) until JFK sanctioned his assassination. Unlike the failed attempt to invade Cuba or kill Castro, the boys did the job right on Diem (on November 2, 1963 - do you catch the irony of the date?). Enter Thieu, another paradigm of human rights. The result? The Wall and those 58,217 names on it - as well as the five million or so dead Vietnamese you didn't see fit to mention, plus the 3 million or so more Vietnamese who suffered and still suffer from Agent Orange - not that Uncle Sam would use chemical weapons indiscriminately against civilians. (And if the common folk were so pro-American or anti-communist, why were so many of the peasants and villagers deemed to be VC? If Uncle was there to save them from Charlie, but they were all Charlie, don't you see something wrong with the "logic"? Didn't you then?

So, in our quest to protect democracy and the rights of the people, why is it that we prevent elections simply because we know what the will of the people is and we don't like the result that the will of the people is going to produce? Isn't that like Abe Lincoln saying at Gettysburg that all those boys died to insure that "a government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth" when in fact the Confederate States of America was a democracy, the Ordinances of Secession were passed first by eleven duly elected state legislatures and resoundingly approved at the polls by the people of each of those states and the Federal army was trying to quash the will of those people by force of arms and to subject them by military might to a government that they considered tyrannical and from which they had democratically separated themselves? There is no constitutional prohibition against secession and the Declarations of Secession which explain the Ordinances list grievances strikingly similar to those of the rebels of 1776 when they spoke of George III. The democracy of the South and the will of the southern people was crushed under the heel of the Northern army. To which dead soldiers was Lincoln really referring? Well, at least we have an inkling of what happens in the US when the government turns on the people.

Why do we support the likes of the House of Saud, Marcos, Shah Pahlavi, Samoza, Armas, Saddam (when we turned on Iran), Thieu, Diem, and on and on and on and on? Damn, you got me again on Saddam. We should have helped Iraq because of what Iran did to us (after what we did to Iran). Forget the coup of '53, we had no obligation to send the spares for the F-14s that Iran had paid for and we had every right to seize all those billions and billions of Iranian dollars (before the embassy was stormed - you starting to see a pattern here?) and having promised four presidents ago to return all that money, it's fine that we're still sitting on so much of it, isn't it? And leave us not forget that great American hero and patriotic Marine, Col. Ollie North. While we were so worried about Iran and our hostages, his drug deals were putting guns in Iranian hands and bullets in those guns. And of course, there's Osama and all we did for him back when he was the good guy, killing Ruskies for us in Afghanistan.

In our effort to promote democracy throughout the world, Ike authorized the CIA to go forward with Operation PBSUCCESS in 1954 (PBFORTUNE, authorized by Harry Truman in '52, having failed). Both operations relied heavily on assistance from that great humanitarian, our freedom loving ally, Nicaraguan dictator Anastacio Somoza and both were aimed at removing Jacobo Arbenz from the presidency of Guatemala. Arbenz, if you don't know, was elected by the people of Guatemala in national elections as a self-avowed socialist. Among other things, the US did not like the fact that he was a threat to the United Fruit Company (a US multi-national corporation to which numerous US official had ties) and its vast riches and holdings throughout Latin America. The CIA plans called for the assassination of Arbenz if necessary, but Arbenz resigned before he was murdered. The few CIA documents declassified 10 years ago fail to mention how many Guatemalan public servants, civilians and elected officials were murdered before Arbenz resigned. That information is probably in the 85% of the material still not released. The CIA then installed Castillo Armas as dictator. Armas and his successors are credited with no fewer than 100,000 murders over the following years - the victims of which were perceived as a threat to their continuation at the helm. A fine example of the US protecting human rights, the democratic process and the will of the people, no? Sure helped build US support in Latin America.

Of course, Guatemala was a second rate venture as compared to the job the CIA did in Iran in 1953. Democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was highly popular at home and abroad. Time Magazine named him Man of the Year, 1951. He believed absolutely in absolute democracy. (There is no reason on earth that a socialist or a communist cannot be elected in a full and fair democratic election - unless, of course, you don't know the difference between a political system and an economic one.) But, Mossadegh got friendly with the Soviets, refused to kow-tow to US demands and to do US bidding in the Middle East and he talked of nationalizing Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (which had held a monopoly of Iran's oil production for more than 50 years - to the great loss and sufferance of Iran and her citizens: in some years, Iran got as much as a whopping 10% of the oil profits from her own oil and the AIOC categorically refused to pay the mere 50% that Iran had been requesting for decades). The Brits, having staged their own coup in Iran and having put Reza Pahlavi into power in 1921 this time asked Truman to take Mossadegh out. Harry refused. The Brits were patient and waited until HST was gone, then they asked Eisenhower to do the job. Ike agreed. Teddy Roosevelt's grandson Kermit, Jr. headed Operation Ajax in '53. By bribery, extortion, assassination, the organization and fermentation of riots and similar democratic gestures, Kemit and the CIA toppled Mossadegh and replaced his democratic government, replacing it with the restored dictatorship of Shah Reza Pahlavi. The Shah this time protected his Peacock Throne by organizing one of the world’s most terrifying and torturous secret police, the Savak. He was our buddy, though, so human rights and democracy again were better served by taking a back seat. The poor souls in the Middle East who suffered and died at the hands of the Shah for the next 25 years were well aware of how they got to where they were and of the primary role the US played in putting them there. Some of the CIA documents on that one are declassified now, too, but in spite of half-hearted CIA denials at the time (the Company was proud of its work and wanted that world to know what they had done), most of the world was well aware of what had gone down and who was behind it. Most thinking historians credit Operation Ajax with giving Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the power and support he needed to depose the Shah. There is no doubt whatsoever that Ajax was one of the prime motivating factors that lead to the seizure of the US Embassy and the hostages in '79.

The Cuban missiles proved we were justly afraid of the Russian Bear didn't they? Did you know the Soviet missiles went to Cuba in the first place as a response to the US missiles which were already up and operational on the Soviet border in Turkey and aimed at and well within range of numerous prime Soviet military and civilian targets. And only after the CIA invasion at the Bay of Pigs failed. And only after several failed US driven assassination plots and attempts on Castro. And only after the US starved and impoverished Cuba with the trade embargoes that remain in place to this day (enter United Fruit again). And only after JFK refused repeated requests, then demands, that the US missiles be removed from Turkey. Those damn commies, bringing in those missile for no reason and without provocation, and the damn Castro for allowing them on his island, right. Once again, the US hands were spotlessly clean. Did you know that the claimed 'missile gap' upon which Kennedy and McNamara devised and justified MAD (only the most costly and dangerous arms race in the history of mankind) really did exist, but according to now declassified US documents (that were available to and/or signed off on by Mac and Jack) prove that the balance was prohibitively overweighted on the US side (USSR, 3,000; US 27,000)? You probably didn't know that the crisis was ended, when Nikita Khrushchev, at the eventual cost of his job, offered to pull his from Cuba publicly and immediately on the condition that Kennedy pulled his from Turkey under cover of darkness within six months. We kept that promise because by the time the six months were up, our Nazis, Von Braun and the other boys from Operation Paperclip stayed busy as beavers, having long since gotten the Redstone off the ground and now having gotten the Saturn and its military counterparts in the air, and finally had caught up to Sergei Korolev, the Soviets and their Nazis and we could hit Moscow from the comfort of the Lincoln Bedroom. Meanwhile, Kennedy, who provoked the whole thing with the missiles in Turkey, the invasion, the assassination attempts, the embargo, is the hero and Khrushchev, who had acted only after failing by diplomacy to in defend his nation's security, then who had the guts to blink in order to get Kennedy to back down, is the villain. Ain't life grand?

I know that if you read this, you'll assume I'm one of those bleeding heart liberals or one of those long-haired communist hippy pinko freaks of the 60's. I know too many names on the Wall to go there with you on that one. You can assume I know them from home or you can assume I know them from my time in country. You can assume I'm typing with two hands or you can assume I left one in the jungles of Quang Ngai Province. It really doesn't matter because my background and politics have no bearing on the documented facts. However, I will admit that before March 18, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, Jr. was just an okay dude, but since that day, he's been one of my personal heroes. When you calm down, check the facts. Then ask why your (our) government hides them from you (and less successfully from me because I read) and lies to you (us) about those buried facts. Georgie's little oopsie today on the Iranian bomb is just the latest in a long long long long long line.

Our country ain't perfect, my man. Rather than to support it blindly, see the warts and try to fix them like the Founding Fathers intended us to do. That or keep your head in the sand and wait for the next plane which crashes into a building, only next time it might be filled with bugs or chems bought from a disgruntled plebe at FMMC or CDC, or until some enterprising soul figures out where to get the fixin's of a nice dirty suitcase nuke. Nuts, think of the fun one could have by highjacking an LPG tanker and touching it off someplace in Hampton Roads or NY Harbor. It doesn't have to be anyone from the Middle East, or Korea. Witness Oklahoma City. Tweak a right wing neocon nose hard enough or feed him the right line and he'll kill for Christ and do unto others long before they can do onto him. We can keep killing for peace, or we can smarten up and finally try to work for it and make it happen. Screw ideology and economy, lets worry about humanity for once.

Generally, a dictator (right wing or left) will burn the books long before worrying about taking away the guns. If you were not aware of any of the forgoing (and all the other incidents I won't go into because this is already way WAY too long), or accept the truth those established facts which can be found in official US government documents, then I guess burning the books is no longer necessary. The very cornerstone of American democracy is the right (and obligation) of people to educate themselves on the affairs of their government and of the world, to protest the wrongs and to demand they be righted - at the polls if possible, in the papers or on the streets if not. Too bad the neocons have forgotten that fact, and the public has forgotten how to do it. The 60s were a breath of fresh air, but they died too. Voting is useless if you don't know what's going on around you. If you don't read, if you don't question, if you don't research, if you only listen to the party line, then please DON'T vote. We don't need any more Bushes any more than we need another Johnson or Kennedy or Nixon.

Semper Fi and have a nice day.


Edit to KJ: You're right. I got lost on my rant to the Ugly American chauvinists and forgot to answer you. Most of the hoi poloi of the world would be pleased, but afraid of what the new government would do to them. Those people know of us because of those things our government does and has done. They know of the good, too, but they realize the US acts in its own self-interest first and above all things. Would anyone rush in to help? No. The US arsenal would be in the hands of the government and military. The military necessarily would be in the hands of the government (or the other way around) or your scenario wouldn't come to pass. (The Patriot Act was the most recent occasion that the government turned on the people and cut another corner off the constitution and no one reacted, so I'm assuming you mean a coup of some sort or the sudden and absolute suspension of the constitution and law.) That being the case, an attempt at assistance would be a fool's errand.

Having traveled extensively abroad, I will say that most of the people I've met look at Americans per se generally with a jaundiced eye, but they react to individuals, usually, consistently with the way those individuals act towards them. I often get better and faster service in restaurants than other Americans present simply because I try to talk to the serving staff in their own language and I try to treat them as the worthy human beings they are. Unfortunately, in my experience, that puts me in a gross minority of Americans abroad.

We are known as people the same way we are known as a nation until each of us is appraised individually as an individual. Whether or not we agree with our government or its actions, we are Americans first and individuals later - if at all. Our national reputation is not good. Even our friends in Europe are tentative. The uneducated in the third world are terrified. The rulers abroad, elected or otherwise, will always have reservations about us as a nation, given out track record. Why? Look at our repeated and continuing interference in the internal affairs of independent sovereign nations. Look at our human rights record, home and abroad. Gitmo, the concentration camps for the Japanese in WWII, our racist immigration policies, our support of paranoid homicidal tyrants, the government sanctioned profiling we condone today and the way our commonfolk as well as media celebrities and government officials condemn all Muslims and Iraqis and Syrians and Libyians and North Koreans (the list goes on) for the acts of a few individuals or their government are not secrets. The world is aware of our treatment of Blacks, both during slavery and today. The world is aware of out treatment of American Indians, both during the decades of genocide and today. The world is aware of our huge arsenal of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and our willingness to use them. We still have the distinction of being the only nation on earth to have used nuclear weapons (and I agree with Nimitz, Eisenhower, MacArthur, the US Strategic Bombing Survey, Truman's Chief of Staff Admiral William D. Leahy and others in like positions of knowledge and power that the bombs did NOT speed up the end of the war, did NOT save American lives and were NOT militarily necessary) The world is aware that the American in the street by and large refuses to distinguish between a foreign government and the its people. (After all, it's not the government screaming from the soapboxes and pulpits to "Bomb the ragheads and camel jockeys all back to the Stone Age" and "Nuke North Korea into a sheet of glass" or "The only good commie is one that's dead, so let's go out and kill them Reds). The world is only too aware that US troops in Vietnam more often than not identified a common peasant or villager as an enemy (and, to be sure, some were) and that the same mentality is at work in Iraq today. The world is aware that under the watchful eye of US troops, the Afghan warlords have produced record poppy crops and as a direct result, the world supply of heroine has increased to dramatic and unprecedented levels and the price has fallen to the extent that kids can now buy it with their lunch money, and the worst is yet to come, not only in addiction and death but in the crime that will accompany the coming epidemics as the needles are filled and passed around. The world is aware of the typical American's racial and ethnic prejudice and general disdain for anyone or anything not American. The world is aware of the rape of natural resources by American business and the abuse of third world peasants and children in corporate sweatshops. The world is aware of the grossly disproportionate use and waste of the world's non-renewable resources and the world is aware of the massive pollution of the world's air, water, atmosphere, and oceans caused by the US and the dire consequences forecast as a result of that planetary abuse.

Read the answers you are getting. The majority, unfortunately, come from the average American. They are perceived abroad for what they prove themselves to be. I suspect even our foreign friends would smile privately should your hypothetical come to pass, but the entire world would hold its collective breath while it waited to see what followed.

Thanks for the soapbox. I know I’ve accomplished nothing, but venting felt good.

Answer 2

I used to care immensely about how the rest of the world thought of me in regards to my nationality. But after realizing what they actually thought (if they thought of it at all) I could care less.

I am who I am. And if someone from somewhere else can't get past my nationality, and puts me into the same group as someone else from the same country of whom they have a less than favorable opinion of, that's not really my problem.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about how stupid Americans are and how arrogant we are. I guess that means that everyone else is really smart and humble. Hmmm.....I've traveled quite a few times to places elsewhere, and that simply isn't the case. Everyone's pretty much the same.

Hate us all you want, and believe whatever you want. I just don't care anymore. I'll treat you the way that I want to be treated, and if I think my nationality is going to be an issue with you, I'll just walk on by to someone else.

Answer 3

The rest of the world envy's our riches and the fact that anyone here, can work and strive to reach a goal, without handycaps. Look at Microsoft's Bill Gates!!

People can come from nothing to riches, and are only held back basically by their own desires. Its America that people are trying to immigrate too, not Russia, China or Cuba.

If you look at America, everytime we have taken a hands off approach to the world, we were thrust into war. WWl, WW2 and yes, Korea and Viet Nam. While I served in Nam, I learned that Congress cannot or should not try to run the military from Capitol Hill. It's because of that, the 10 years and 58,000 or so dead added up.

In order to make America great, the rest of the world wants what we have and if we give them our wealth, they would be only slightly happy. Another group, the Islamic Radicals, want us dead. That is plan and simple from jump street. Dont take a college degree to figure that one out.

America is the only country where the will of the people is suppose to drive our Government. How many years has it been since a majority of the people actually got out and voted for something? ;Most take it for granted and dont bother to vote.

The ultra left wont try making the US a Socialistic country until they are able to take the guns from the people. It was the people having their hunting rifles and such, that armed the Minute Men when we told England we had enough.

Answer 4

Folks in other nations know this. My work has taken me into negotiations with Germans, Britons, French, Mexicans, Chinese, and Italians.

They understand that Americans are just people...even if our government is completely whacked out.

In the 1860's we did turn on ourselves. The rest of the world pretty much stayed out of it. At that time, European textile industries were dependent on Southern Cotton traded to them by Northern Brokers (and you wondered who benefitted from Slavery). Both the French and the British flirted with recognizing Southern Independence, but timely Union victories, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the South's unwillingness to abolish Slavery ensured that Europe would not come into the conflict on their side.

If our government were to suddenly turn on us in this country, it is hard to imagine a scenario where another nation would enter this country....what a second...oh yeah...my bad...the Mexicans are already doing it....

Answer 5

For the individuals who hate this u . s ., superb enable them to flow to a diverse u . s . and spot how lots government information they get or how many acts of terrorism they could witness. of path, to the foreigners, in case you dislike my u . s . lots you're welcome to flow away it. the place I stay isn't a border state yet we've many, many Hispanics and then a large scientific college and school which helps lots of human beings from India and the middle east. They stay an exceptionally good existence right here with out hate speech, etc. we are a state that votes Republican. some individuals in this u . s . do exactly no longer understand how fortunate they are, i think they choose the government.handy each and every thing to them on a silver platter.~

Answer 6

Elementary my Dear Watson, JEALOUSY.
Every Govt. in every corner of this world Sucks, we R no different.
Doors are open for winners and losers alike. JUST PICK.
Americans do more for world poverty, hunger, environmental issues, battered women, hungry children, than any of the so called American Haters. It has given out loans and supported every third world nation out there. So some people *****, but when they get attacked, guess who helps out!!

Answer 7

To be honest with you the "Nuke em all " attitude, from so many Americans on here isn`t helping your cause .
The arrogance and sneering we get from you lot on here doesn`t help much either.it goes a lot deeper than your government but When you had 9/11 you had the worlds sympathy ,and many countries sent aid after Katrina but probably most Americans don`t know that

Answer 8

While Iranians may be able to claim that their government doesn't really represent their views...given the guns pointed at them... Americans are not entitled to such a claim. We elect the idiots we have and we are entirely responsible for what they have done.

I, for one, think it was refreshing to hear the intelligence community come out and revise their statements about what is happening with Iran's nuclear program. If more of our government officials would stand up and refute what the retarded reps and dumb-as_s dems say, we'd all be better off.

Answer 9

If Americans stopped thinking they were superior, undefeatable and all knowing many of these problems would be solved.

I am American and I can't stand many of my fellow Americans who agree to the policing of the world in the name of security, the destruction of the constitution, Bill of rights and Habeas corpus all in the name of security.
I lived as an expat the past 7 years and felt more free in Asia, Eastern Europe and Jordan.
I was able to watch real news , speak my opinion without being harassed, start business easily and cheaply without bureaucracy and many other benefits

We need to go back to small government and get an attitude check

Answer 10

I bet more Muslims are hated than Americans and stand in line cause I don't care what you think

Answer 11

The only reason they despise Americans is because they are jealous that they are not in America or are American citizens, why do you think more people want to immigrate to the United States than any country in the world.