I did a little Googling recently. I put in the question "Why do they hate US?" and I came up with 21,000 links.

One Web site is dedicated to answering this question "Why do they hate US?" By going country by country and giving specific reasons why people in that country would hate US so.

In my lifetime, it seems like the United States has gone from being talked about by the rest of the world as "The Ugly American" to "Ugly America."

After World War II, the US took a combination of capitalism, a new military/industrial complex, and old-fashioned American can-do spirit, and rebuilt a bloodied bombed-out Europe. Shell-shocked and starving, European countries eagerly accepted American know-how, goods, and good will.

But while America as a nation was viewed as a great friend and partner dur…