Gregory Morrow > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> I posted it because I am interested in the U.S.'s image around
>> the world, and it seems the current administration has found
>> yet another way to offend just about everybody.

>NOBODY cares what a bunch of anti - US pukes think, Steve...you are
>simply being naive. Many foreigners would loathe us whatever we
>do...even if we fed, clothed, and housed them. Which we've done for
>many around the world. We are the *most* generous country in the
>world when it comes to helping out others with food or whatever aid...

>[And that INCLUDES military aid, especially the "nuclear umbrella" and
>our on - the - ground troop presence that we've provided for our
>allies since WWII...that is a HUGE cost and contributes to peace,
>stability, and prosperity too...ask someone in South Korea or the
>former West Germany...]

Yeah, I've lived abroad, I've traveled abroad and I can tell
you in the past 40 years there has been a steady decline in affection
for Americans, including a particularly steep drop in the last few.
It is definitely not of case of "they'll hate us no matter what".
Nowhere close to that.

Steve