Is America, Really as bad as people say? Options

[CrazayChristian]

I know, I'm an American, why am I asking this?

Well, I've heard both sides of the story, and I still don't see why people dislike America.

I came across this topic:

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And I realized that there must be some sort of prejudice involved.

In my opinion, we are doing alot already. We actually have more troups in the yugoslavian area than Iraq, and I think we lose more people there than Iraq. We have troups there to help stifle the fighting.
We have troups in Iraq so that we can help them to defend themselves.
We are the big brother of Isreal.

And yes we've had some bad moments, such as the bikini Islands. But, you're expected to make mistakes. Look at how the European powers did hundreds of years ago.

Some people blame the president for the problems, but put yourself in his shoes, to control the most powerful country in the world and try to make everyone happy. It just doesn't always work out.

So, I'm wondering, why do certain people (almost entire countries) dislike America?

(I'm curious about my facts, and I figured debate would be the best way to discuss diffrent sides)

[*mipadi*]

Not necessarily. Certainly American ingenuity has contributed greatly to our success; I just mean to say that you cannot chalk up the lack of success on the part of other countries to a lack of ingenuity.

A parallel to the women's rights movements can be drawn here. Say men represent America, and women represent second- and third-world countries. You argue that women did not invent the airplane or penicillin or rubber because they were simply not as capable as men; I argue that women were just as capable of inventing those things, but they did not have the opportunity to do so.