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I have always felt that one of the reasons why so many other citizens of other countries hate us is that they aren't Americans. For example, One of my former bosses was a gentleman from England who spent much of his life traveling around the world before settling in the United States. One of his more interesting observations was that though the United States was the most vilified country in the world our he found that our embassy had the longest line of people trying to get permission to immigrate here.

That is one of the reason why I don't care what the rest of the world thinks about the United States. The goverments of these countries, with few examples, are staffed by stupid people who are persuing policies that are spurring their best and brightest to leave their native lands and come here to the States. A nation where freedom, equality and OPPORTUNITY allows these people to provide a BETTER life for themselves. In short, The U.S. provides people with the tools and the incentives to go out and engage in self-improvement, and largely be left alone while doing them. Most of these would be applicants would probably be dead before thirty in their native lands or locked into an endless cycle of poverty.

America is also hated because here people are free and we respect, for the most part, individual rights, duties and responsibilities. Aside from the occasional racial incident perpertrated by generally stupid people, an individual's right to persue their path in life is still, for the most part, respected, and indeed expected. In fact the guys who DON'T respect individualism are the leftists and liberals who view people thinking for themselves (and more importantly, doing for themselves), as being inherently dangerous to their cause(s). Many foreign countries are still ruled by dictators, fascists, and self-appointed "liberators" who are more interested in maintaining their own position in a society at the cost of everyone elses. This is a hard thing to do in a free society, where access to education and economic opportunity gives the individual the ability, indeed the incentive, to go out and improve himself, be it finacially, intellectually and even socially. It's very hard to be a dictator to a nation of educated people, despite the attempts of the left wing in this country (and others) to do so.

Another reason why we are hated is because of the American Media. An entity which is, unfortunately, run by this same clic of left wingers/liberals, and they are way out of control. Starting with Hollywood and ending with all the left leaning large news organizations, the media has become a major embarassment with the lies, half-truth's and vicious innuendos it spews out, with regularity, into the ether. Out of ALL the supposed Americans who are disrespectful of a foreign country's society, I suspect it is the Media's crusading journalists who are the ones who stand at the forefront as the nastiest, "ugliest" Americans.

The bottom line here is that America is "Damned if we do and Damned if we don't". It's a no win scenario no matter what way one looks at it. If we left Saddam Hussein alone and he nuked Europe or Israel or dumped some sort of Bio-plague on them we'd still be at fault because A - We sponsored him (because of the oil) or B - We didn't get rid of him in the Gulf War when we could have or C - we didn't invade him (because of the oil) or D - we invaded him and pissed him off (because of the oil), etc. etc. blah blah blah blah blah....

We have to take care of our own now, regardless of whether or not the leftists like it or the Europeans like it or the whomever else likes it or not. That's the way it is. Period, and personally I don't really care what the German Socialists/Communists or the Italian Marxists or the left wingers in Europe think.