Very interesting.
“How can USA improve its image abroad?”
This kind of article is biased since it begins by this question.
US don’t have to improve its image abroad because that’s only rabid muzzy crowds or lib-leftist west-european crowds who shout and make noise...
USA should stay quiet and accept to be attacked everywhere and deny its values to please all those misled crowds.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.
This is just a lib fairy song:”everyone will love us if you smile!What did Bill with OUSSAMA BLADEN BTW ?
Ive said this before anyways: the role of the UN is to stifle our interests, and that was the same reason why the EU was formed.
We shouldnt even be shouldering $$$ for the majority of NATO operations and let the Euroweenies defend themselves. It’s best to sacrifice them to the Islamists while we re-load stateside.
You are never going to please every country.
You should stand for what you stand for, do what you can to back up those countries who agree with you, and those people within the various countries who agree with you.
Be loyal to your friends within reason, don’t be too quick to sell them out in exchange for a bump in the polls. When you do all that you should do, and public opinion turns against you, just remember that history is the long haul, and sometimes you may have to fight, and persuade, and sometimes history will have to vindicate you because the press and your political enemies sure aren’t going to.
The last thing you ever want to do is let the press and their pollsters tell you what your policies must be, and who your friends are.
No hillary, your message and that of all of the dems is "Better to live on our knees as slaves than fight on our feet as free men."
I give a rat's a$$ what the world thinks of us as long as they fear us and still have to come humbly with downcast eyes to ask for $20 and the car keys.
Sarkozy was well known to be pro-American, he was criticized for it in his election campaign.
Bush’s main enemies in the West are gone; Schroeder in Germany, Chirac in France, Chretien in Canada, all of them replaced by conservatives.
Don’t let your enemies define you, and don’t ever let the press define you.
Very good read, though nothing that the average Freeper doesn’t already know forwards and backwards.
So basically it’s what we’ve always known—IOW, they’re just jealous (of our superpower status). Some of those people are so eaten up with blind jealousy that they’d cut their own noses off to spite their faces-I’ve seen more and more on certain message boards, the sentiment expressed that they’ll be glad when China overtakes us, and words to that effect. How stupid can they be? Like China is going to even pretend to pacify their little inferiority complexes. China, if ever entrenched, won’t give a rat’s azz about their widdle feelings, and coddle them like the US does, to be “diplomatic”.
He makes a good point, that Europeans over-idealize "soft power" because they have chosen not to develop any "hard power" of their own, their self-image depends on making a virtue of their weakness. This is not to disparage those countries who have deployed what "hard power" they have into the fight at hand. We appreciate it and we appreciate them.
He makes another good point, which is that most Euro governments are socialist, and again making a virtue out of their weakness they will not rest until we have adopted their model, until we have allowed the liliputians to strap us down.
But if America loses out against the existential threats posed by global terrorism and fundamentalist Islam, then the issue of America’s international image will be mute.
"mute" should read "moot"...
Otherwise, well written and good analysis.
Kern hits the nail on the head with his observation about how European elitists want to change America into a European vassal. Of course Democrats are more than willing to go along with this. The result would be a world with it’s throat bared to radical Islam and other evildoers. Who are ever in waiting for their chance.