Bennie, I am so sick of hearing this stuff. We are not the wonderful virtuous perfect images everybody wants but who could be? There's no way any great power could be everything all the other several hundred countries would like to have as mammy. We aren't always right or brilliant but we are a lot better than to deserve all this hatred. I see a large component of it as just what I see in individuals and domestic local situations, too...a transferrence. It's so much easier to hate and blame someone else that look clearly at how you caused your own problems. You say we need to do that....I say good advice for the rest of the world, too. Trying to tear us down is just going to cost everybody. Even if it happened, and I don't think we will let it, all that would be left would be a planet in shambles, not some golden glory-land on the other side. What a shame if that's what it would take for people to finally realize that they will find themselves just exactly in the same place after all. Maybe even worse off. Should we really let them blow up a few buildings a year just so they can gradually wake up?