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Actually, Mike, my experience has been that there are a few people who are jealous of the United States.

Many of them that I have met - recently and back when Uncle sent me around a couple of places - don't dislike the U.S., although they view our government with suspicion. Do you think the Australian Prime Minister is committing political suicide because of the righteousness of our cause, or is it because he hopes to persuade the morons in DC not to try and buy friendship with the Indonesians again - which we have done repeatedly in the past in spite of the dangers that it presents to an ally that's never hesitated to support us in any of our follies?

And they find certain kinds of American arrogance, particlularly when expressed by boorish people without a clue about the world, very offensive. Frankly, the way you talk about "thje world of Pax Americana" makes me ashamed to be from the same place as you are - not of my country - just some of the clueless who live here.