Sigh. Not this crap again.The rest of the world hates America
(As before, I'm taking issue with the statement, not the person who posted it, so it's going here instead. Maybe this time it won't get deleted.)
You're trying to tell me that I, as one of the 6,000,000,000 or so people in "the rest of the world", hate all 300,000,000 of you. That my seventy something year old mother hates all 300,000,000 of you. That all the rest of my family (possibly excluding some 42nd cousins so distantly related you have to go back to the 18th century to find a link) hate all 300,000,000 of you. That at least half my on-line friends and practically all my off-line friends hate all 300,000,000 of you (including the other up to half of my on-line friends). That all the Aussies, British, Canadians, Irish, Dutch, Germans etc. etc. here hate all 300,000,000 of you. Well, sorry, but I call BS on that.
You may have noticed that the rest of the world doesn't have a high opinion of your political leaders. Newsflash: the rest of the world also tends not to have a particularly high opinion of our own political leaders either. (The local we-hate-the-gummint crowd's latest (particularly stupid) catch cry seems to be "The Prime Minister is a lesbian and so is her husband!"). We simply don't subscribe to the notion that our leaders can Do No Wrong. Neither do we believe that of yours. But we understand that the individual politicians choose to say and do the things that cause them to be criticised. They can't point at you and say "they made me do it! they made me shag the intern! they made me lie about the weapons!".
The bottom line is: most of the world sees America as a friend. Now ask yourself: what would you do if you saw one of your friends staggering around, blithering like an idiot and generally being a nuisance? Would you sit back and let them keep on making a fool of themselves or would you step in before they do something really unforgivable, put an arm around their shoulder and steer them back home so they can sleep it off and probably grumble about their hangover the following morning? I know what I'd do. More to the point, I know what I'd want one of my friends to do if the positions were reversed.