Well, I'm none of the above guests, but an American one who was very interested in this poll. Thank you to the guest who provided the link to it.

As an American, I am proud to say I did all right on the poll--5 right. And some of those I was wrong about, like Russian's attitudes towards Americans. I was as close to the right answer as possible, but boy was I wrong!

At any rate, I think Salman Rushdie, an author I greatly admire, has it only partly right. Americans will find it much more difficult to defeat anti-American attitudes than Islamic fundamentalism, but only in certain parts of the globe, like Britain! I think the British are pathological in their hatred of Americans, and pretty damn irrational about it too. I mean, what the hell did we ever do to the Brits to justify it? Now, the Phillipines, or Vietnam, or all of Latin America...there is no shortage of places where I would expect anti-American sentiments to be very strong because of the imperial reach of our military and "economic" (yeah, right) advisers/troops, which ever the case may be.