He has to get out of the Harvard faculty lounge, is what he has to do.

To not be hated by the meshugas in the rest of the world would be disconcerting. That they hate us? Not so much.

As I have explained to visitors, the people I know don't give a rats patoot what other countries think of us. We are a country full of people who other countries didn't want or their countries didn't want them. As this website has pointed out before, virtually every misery of the 20th century happened or had it roots in Europe, so who especially cares what they think of us?

Since ressentment aimed at the United States is a mater of psychopathology, we must address it as we address the delusions of any profoundly mentally ill patient. At what point may we humor or indulge the delusion; at what point must we confront the patient with reality. Does it do more harm or more good to suggest that the magnets on his refridgerator were not put there by the CIA to monitor his brain waves.

There is a difficulty with endlessly coddling the sensibilities of the rest of the world. The United States has been trying to cajole the rest into accepting our help with the minimun psychic impact. Unfortunately, this course of action has squandered the morale our our own people. We are poised to lose it all, because we have not given our people the spirit and song they need to sustain our power.

This is a prescription for world war, for mega-deaths. If we back away from our burden, the mentally ill of the world will come after us or our friends, and we will have to fight. Do not hope that they will leave us alone if we only make nice. That is impossible. Their consciousness of inferiority and failure will drive their hatred regardless of what we do,

Most days, I wish they hated us more.

Why don't they hate us?

Why do they hate us? Let me count the ways ...

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from their company], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

Luke 6:22

Luke is my post. Sorry there's no signature.

America gets a lot of grief because it's seen as the successor to the European colonial empires.

Ali- Exactly. Another misconception caused by the European reliance on romantic intellectualism or what many Americans see as self-indulgent simple-mindedness. If the majority of Americans can be faulted for anything it's seeing others as they see themselves when that is simply not the case. Many cultures seem to want a boot on their necks. Euro-intellectuals, to a large extent, still rely on the Marxist interpretation of 'imperialism', thus their confusion.

Benjamin Franklin was the first to understand this weakness of our European friends. He never shoved it in their faces, only encouraged it since it coule be used to the benefit his young Republic.

The mistake that people like Mr. Ferguson make is to assume that what our country does is greatly related to how we are perceived. In reality, most of what people say about us is similar to the kind of self-contradictory charges people make about the Jews (such as the old line about how Jews are both capitalists and Bolsheviks). Islamists who think Americans are irreligious libertines and Europeans who think we're religious fanatics find great common ground in their dislike of our country.

People who hate America need to examine themselves, not us.