Only an opinion?!
Bloody hell, you could say that Osama bin Laden's views are only an opinion, yet they have apparently managed to motivate 19 young men to do what they did on September 11.
It's that "only an opinion", head in the sand sort of talk that gets us to September 11.
Yes, the USA is a powerful nation with many things to which the rest of the world would aspire.
But, as Fionn has said, the USA has also done things that should be condemned (and yes, I'm a Brit, and I know that my own country has done some appalling things in the past - from Amritsar to Derry).
As a result there are many in the world who do hate America and all it stands for. That's a fact that no amount of ordnance can change.