I agree. It's too bad that jealousy, hatred and anger can have such a powerful and controlling effect on the mind.
As an American I can fully understand the concept of doing what is best for AMERICA first and then what is best for the world as long as it doesn't hurt America. I can also understand non-American citizens' anger over that attitude. What I can't understand is non-Americans not understanding America's attitude. The French, English, Greeks, Italians (Romans), Jews, Chinese, Japanese have all had their day and when it was their day they had the same attitude we do today. The primary difference is that when it was their day after a long day of conquest, murder, rape and pillaging they brought the conquered back home as slaves. Has anyone any solid information about American's raping and pillaging after conquest? We'll leave murder out because the definition of murder during wartime tends to become a little subjective. No, we do not see such information because it isn't happening. Instead we see American soldiers building schools, repairing infrastructure, providing food and medicine, doctors and teachers, training and money. Can anyone show me another country in the history of the world that rebuilt the conquered and returned the country to it's people after it was no longer a threat to it's own? Germany is run by Germans last I checked. The rest of the European Allied nations were helped, supported and then accepted as equals in spite of their debt they owed and still owe as far as I'm concerned.
Those of you who hate America so much, why is it that so many people from the rest of the world, from every country, religion, gov't structure, etc. is beating a path to our door? We may not be perfect, in fact far from it. We have however shown a history of learning from our mistakes albeit sometimes slowly and we have been accepting of all peoples whether they are willing to accept us and our ways or not.
The fact still remains that the UN for over 10 years has called Saddam Hussein a monster, a butcher, a murderer of his own people, a dictator not to be trusted and other wonderful accolades. Over 60 nations in the UN have signed on to this endeavor and yet America is the bad guy. Like Mr. Barton said, we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. Or in the words of Christ, We played the flute for you and you did not dance, we sang a dirge for you and you did not mourn.
Again, for the right or wrong reasons, we did the right thing.