Fionn does a pretty good job of supporting my point. A lot of people would like to think that Americans are quaking with fear and live in daily dread of having their water supply poisined. That's just not the case. It is another example of the same type of gross generalization in the statement that the world hates America. As far as some of the so-called American atrocities described in various posts, they pretty much helped to stop the world from being ruled by Nazis or Japanese imperialists. They also stoped South Korea from being conquered by North Korea (would any of you like to be living in N. Korea right now) and played a role in winning the Cold War. If you think that the U.S. is as remotely bad as any of these scenarios, then you are even more delusional than I already think. It is simply proof that many critics are much more ignorant and predjudice than they claim Americans to be.