Why these people are so obsessed with “America’s image” overseas is beyond me. Who cares what the rest of the world thinks. The most important thing is that we’ve currently got the mightiest military by far of any of the other world players.
I have one lefty loonie friend who brought up the “everybody hates us” meme once. I told her that I would worry about America’s standing in the world when people stopped risking their lives to come here. Shut her right up.