Reply #3: Interesting piece...but I take issue w Sullivan writing that this... [View All]

[rasputin1952]

nation is "hated", far from it from what I have witnessed.

To be sure the current "leadership" of this nation is despised worldwide, but the ideal is still seen as a beacon of Freedom throughout the world. in a parallel, we never really hated the people of the countries dominated by Communism, we just didn't like their leadership...same thing goes for us in the eyes of the world.

Zealots and fanatics will always stir the pot looking for it to boil over, but rational people the world over, regardless of religion, ethnicity or anything else, still hold us in high regard. They may think we fell off the deep end for a while, but once the neo-con plutocracy is beaten into the ground and staked there forever, the nations of the world will once again see the leadership in at least a tolerable light, if not outright forgiving for what bush/cheney and the neo-cons have done to this nation.