"Dave S" wrote in message
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At the risk of sounding unpatriotic.. I agree with some of what you were
criticizing. America has actively earned the hatred of many abroad by
virtue of our foriegn policy and active meddling in the affairs of other
countries.

Like the UN does every day? (And the rest of the world intervenes through
them)

How about our Foreign aid? Do they mind that meddling? How about the World
Bank?

We have supported former dictators on several occasions who
later we moved to depose when they no longer served our needs.

Like the USSR during WW2?

We have a
reputation for being arrogant, impolite, demanding and hypocritical.

That wounds like the world in general...that same world that never seems to
mind our bailing them out several times in the past 100 years.