I think the most notable emotion stirred up in the World by the USA, teribus, is not envy, but fear (and also hatred, in many cases). I am Canadian, and I certainly do not envy the USA nor have I ever envied the USA...and I lived there for 10 years. I pity the USA sometimes, though, because of its cultural blindness.

My above remarks are not directed at individual American citizens, but at the collective power system and the plutocrats who rule over them and who control the media and most of the money.

I do not envy the atomic missiles, the stealth bombers or the B-52 squadrons. I do not envy the high crime rate and the huge prison population. I do not envy the fast food empires. I do not envy the delusions of Hollywood and the reality TV shows. I do not envy the corporate-sponsored phony two party system that actually offers American voters almost no real choice at all. I do not envy the ability to harangue a confused population into supporting naked aggression. I do not envy excess, irresponsibility, hypocrisy, and corporate insanity posturing as "liberty and justice for all".

Just because the USA once fought someone worse than themselves (the Nazis and Imperial Japan) does not for all time place the USA at the right hand of God wielding the sword of eternal justice...nor should it obscure the fact that the USA has itself frequently launched unjustified, opportunistic military actions against small countries, and is presently doing precisely that in Iraq.