Why? Envy.
FYI
The common hatred the unsuccessful have for the successful.
Here is a good question for thought... IF the World has hated us for generations .... Why does the World support Kerry as President....
They know Kerry will bring us down and they are licking their chops hoping beyond hope that enough Americans can be bought by George Soros and the progressive left anarchists.
Amazing. This is one of the best-written, best researched, thought-out articles I've ever read on anti-Americanism, both at home and abroad.
They hate us because we are the only superpower and because we are the wealthiest nation by a wide margin. There is nothing we can do about it. It's inevitable. It's human nature for the rest of the world to hate us. Besides, since when do nations conduct foreign policy to get other nations to like them? It's stupid. Do the French care what others think? Does anybody like the France?
God Bless my beautiful America, for all the bad, we are still the greatest nation in the world. I have seen many different countries all over the world and nothing compares to this great nation...........What an honer to serve her........
The reason they hate America is because they are envious. Also, because they are totalitarianists themselves and they hate freedom and capitalism.
Most interesting to me are the Americans (United States natural born citizens)that hate the USofA. Why?
America "Eff Yeah"!
as Dash-hole would say, us American infidels are just "winners of life's lottery".
ping (gonna buy that book)
"Intellectuals" throughout the world were convinced during the twentieth century that Communism was the inevitable conclusion of history. The Soviet Union properly understood America and referred to us directly in its internal documents as "the Main Enemy."
While they may skirt the issue with dissembling about "the lack of balance," the truth is that many intellectuals (including those in the US) despise us because we destroyed their god. They hated us once as The Enemy. Now adrift they have nothing left but petty idols like Castro or French "Thinkers", and their consuming hatred.
Since 1980, I have spent over six years in Korea, three years in Japan, four and one-half in The Netherlands & Belgium and am now in Israel. With the exception of Israel, I have found most people throughout the world love Americans, however: Europeans seem to marganilized into a sort of socialist people devoid of hope or salvation and they all seem to have "just enough" money, too much vacation time and no prospect of rising financially into afluence. Europeans have traded "Opportunity" for "Security Socially" as a people, e.g., they are literally socialist and envious of others who excell. Asians on the other hand are extremely productive and competitive and do have "hope" and expectations of rising into material afluence in their lives. As for the Middle East, it would seem that Israeli's are a blend of American-European outwardly but full of hope in spite of the ravages of Arab hatred visited upon them daily. And for the nonChristian Arabs, they too seem to lack hope as their leadership throughout their Arab world seems to allow only their leaders to live in splendor while they enjoy squallor coupled with state sponsored transference of personal condition into the aforementioned hatred of Jews and Americans.
As usual well written. Thanks.
Well-written articles, and excellent post, q.
"appurtenances"
I learned a new word today.
I don't know why they hate us, I don't care why they hate us, and it's the last thing in the world, that will keep me up at night worrying about.
Hatred destroys the hater.
It is high time we start to insult other countries. A few words to France; a few words to Germany; a few words to Venezuela; a few words to Spain.
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson is the most articulate and knowledgeable person I have ever read. That guy kept me going over the past year regarding the war in Iraq. He deserves a medal from the President.
His essays appear on NRO every Friday in case some of you have missed him.