You make some very interesting points..and I am glad I took the time to read what you wrote..as i can understand your arguments..at least some of them..
since I see the “Good” side of America too..even tho I don’t like many of the Actions and policys of The Government..and it always saddens me to see desperate Boat people being sent back..That is not the America I believe in..

ALL The world leaders come to POWER..”FOR THE PEOPLE’
or on the Backs of the People..

This is the Chinese Year of the RAT..not the Year of the Tiger..Its the year of RAT SHIT..Not Gnat Shit..

Its the HOUR of POWER..One hand at a time..

I have often wondered if most Mexicans so “Idolize” Che and Fidel Castro, why in the hell they sneak into the “Imperialist Yankee Pig’s Lair” (the US) instead of immigrating “en-masse” to Fidel’s “Haitian” paradise in Cuba! After all, after almost 50 years of being a Revolutionary, Communist, and Socialist “Paradise”, the once prosperous and affluent Cuba – the “Pearl of the Antilles of the Spanish Crown” – looks more like Haiti (literally), even ethnically! Ninety five per cent of the whites of European, Spanish descent, have emigrated to Miami and elsewhere, leaving the island to impoverished, uneducated, and indigent blacks and mulattoes. So much for Obama’s “socialism”. Shall we call that the “browning of Cuba”???

But what most people around the world feel about America is disgust and contempt! An Iraqi will chance being killed and proudly show his purple finger to show he voted in the first “FREE” elections the blood of our American Heroes bought those SOBs; yet if it’s raining on election day here in America voters will not go out to vote…Oh my! How fickle!

I learned from a Palestinian I knew 20 years ago, long before 9/11, that to the Arab mind-set: “The American male is an over-sexed, overfed, effeminate creature that has been ‘emasculated’ by comfort and luxury, and even let mischievous women do as they please, and are all but prostitutes (his quote) and wanton women”, and that America – proven so true by the “commie” Democrats and their allies in the liberal media during this Iraq War- “do not have the stomach or backbone to defend our democracy”….much less the world!

In their view America, in spite of all its financial, strategical, and technical superiority, it’s but a “Paper Tiger” – step on it’s tail or its paw, and it will run back whining back home, in defeat, with all its gadgets, firepower, and much touted superiority, with its tail between it’s legs, sucking its thumb…as it did in Vietnam!!!

That is why the gnats of the world dare stand up to America!!! Look at Castro…dying of old age and hemorrhoids on his “Throne” with billions of dollars in his Swiss bank accounts, while assholes in America (from Michael Moore, Harry Belafonte, to Michelle Obama – too many to name) make the “Cuban Butcher of the Revolution” into some kind of a “hero” or demigod … even as they are trying to make out of Obama! (puke!)

I see the Obama presidency looming….I see Obama as president selling Israel out… I see him normalizing relations with Fidel the Tyrant and paying homage to him before he dies. I see his wife wearing a Che T-shirt holding hands with Belafonte, and Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and Ahmadinejad in triumph, while raising the clenched fist of the Black Panthers and the communists for all the world to see! And as in the Fall of Rome, we the “suicidal lemmings” would have been the ones that granted her and her husband that power – in our cowardice and banality!!!

Perhaps, America, you deserve no better fate