kayakjazz, your perspective is interesting, yet I don't see how winning a popularity contest with the world can trump the security interests that we have as a nation. Sure, it'd be "nice" to have the world love us. It'd also be "nice" if foreign political leaders didn't cash in on this view of the USA to win support amoung voters. And while looking at the actions of the USA around the world during the last half century may give the impression that our policies are hypocritical, it is only because they lack the proper perspective. A read of that book would perhaps detail how little perspective there is to those that "Hate" America.