Hatred arises out of fear. Clearly, those countries as well as many others are afraid of America. Ask yourself why.

Without any fear, you do not have hatred. You may have other negative emotions, such as contempt, etc, but you will not have hatred unless it has arisen out of a significant level of fear.

That, for instance, is why most North American Indians hated the white Americans in the 1800s...and it's also why the white Americans hated the Indians. Mutual fear, due to conflicting interests.

There are conflicting interests causing fear between America and much of the rest of the world. Those interests are primarily matters of economic competition and competition for scarce resources and markets.

And thus it has ever been. The Romans and Carthaginians hated each other for the very same reasons.

That's why I consider mutual cooperation to be a better idea than competition. I always did.

Example: I found that I enjoyed playing table tennis a lot more if me and the other person didn't keep score...but just played for the fun of it. It was way more fun. It also led to more interesting play, because one wasn't worried about losing a point by trying a specially risky shot. It was better in every way. I discovered that I would much rather play for the sheer joy of playing than for the brief and pointless joy of "winning" (at the cost of making somebody else "lose"). I like winning, but I don't like to make someone else lose, so it's a conflicted situation.

Some people just can't relate to that at all. They only care about winning. I had a friend, Larry, an excellent player, and he simply couldn't bear to play without keeping score, because then he couldn't tell if he was "winning" or not, and winning was everything to him.

The Romans and Carthaginians could have decided to trade with each other in a friendly fashion, share in their knowledge, and co-exist as brothers. Both could have prospered. Entire cities of innocent people could have been spared from annihilation. They lacked the imagination to make such an arrangement.

I'm sorry to say that national leaders today also appear to lack the imagination to make such an arrangement. They're still playing to "win"...which means that somebody else must lose.

It's a shortsighted and destructive attitude. Today's winner will not necessarily win tomorrow...and even if he does, other people must suffer and die to secure his win...and their descendants will probably seek vengeance upon his descendants...or on someone else entirely.

You see, if you keep kicking the dog, then the dog will eventually get nasty and bite someone. Maybe not you. Maybe someone else. The person the dog bites will get upset and probably dump it on someone else. And so it goes....