RE: foreign opinion on policy--Well, since US policy does seem to be open to outside criticism, I thought I ask you all how things should be.
RE: why the US is hated--I didn't mean to over-simplify; it seems every group has a different reason to dislike the US. My motivations weren't patriotism or government propaganda, though.
I was referring more to the recent criticism from other Western nations.
RE: debts/investments--WWII, the rebuilding of Germany and Japan, and the waiving of the war debts from those countries (granted, they probably never would have been able to fully repay). Of course the US gained something from the rebuilding, but so did Germany and Japan. Japan, at least, was even able to compete with the US economically through the 80's and into the 90's. (See Ray Stevens' song "We're Getting Taken over by the Japanese."
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[ April 01, 2003, 15:09: Message edited by: Krsqk ]
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