Perhaps it"s the Americans' APPARENT disdain for anything and anyone outside their own admittedly rather large and complex country? Before the D-day invasion of Normandy, it was considered necessary to issue all American troops with a booklet outlining the history of France and its people, and the achievements of its engineers and scientists in the fields of aviation,medicine,electricity, mathematics,civil engineering, town planning, and the list goes on, whilst the average GI could only think of cheese, garlic, and women with hairy armpits ! Not that they were not CORRECT in that assessment, of course, but when carrying out an invasion of someone elses' country, whether hostile or for "liberation", it makes a huge difference if the "invader" shows respect for, and knowledge of, the ways ,habits and customs of the "invaded" .In virtually every film that I have seen, featuring the US army or Marines fighting in Germany, Korea, Vietnam, or wherever, the enemy are ALWAYS portrayed as being dumb savages, and ALWAYS referred to as Krauts, Gooks, Slopeheads, or whatever, which is very arrogant. History shows us that people who fail to understand or respect their enemies get their arse ( ASS) kicked !!! When I saw those pictures of that US Army woman humiliating her Iraqi prisoners in that disgusting way, ( and I don"t care how justified she thought she was, and anyway she seemed to be enjoying it too much) , I thought " Uh OH !! The Yanks have lost us this one---every Arab in the world is going to be against us NOW !!" And , of course, they are . And you can bet North Korean TV had a propaganda field-day with that one, too. !!