US hegenomy is no secret. It is a systemic problem with the development of our country starting from the displacement of Native Americans through African American slavery not to mention the brutality of the Mexican American war.

I don't think that Iraqis or Koreans hate the American people. In many ways, they would like our material advantages. Jazz, rock, R and B, Rap and folk music are exportable ambassadors for American culture. Unfortunately, many Americans are ignorant of Iraqi or Korean cultures. It's an ignorant one-way street.

The people in power in the US have no regard for other cultures. They see them as money-making machinery to satiate their greed. The rest of the world knows this and rejects this provinciality. It appears as hatred but if you dig deeper you will find that it's the behavior of the ruling-class America that incites reaction, not that of all the American people.

Also, religious zealotry and intolerance are at the basis of much of the conflict...as usual.

Frank