By all means Little Hawk, have a bit of a pop at me and ignore the points I raised against your diatribe against the US, that is after all the specific topic of this thread, concentrate on your ping-pong analogy.

The fact still remains that - "most countries do not fear America". That is purely the product of your rather jaundiced and totally biased opinion - always for the underdog eh? Oh, favourite hobby-horse of yours Little Hawk - most people, within their "Empire", did not hate the Romans either, they too provided security, prosperity, order, good governance and improvement - the people, in general, tended to appreciate all that.