Quote from hapaboy:
I see...
No response to the "Death to America" comments?
*sigh* I'm not talking to any really deep thinker, am I....
Death to America, scmeth to America. Who cares?
Don't you think the citizens of Serbia echo such sentiment? It's perhaps waning today, but in the wake of Clinton's attack, there was nary a Serb alive who didn't wish the ghastliest of fates on America. Even today anti-American sentiment remains widespread.
Go to Greece. Ask the locals how they feel about America. America has never hurled as much as a rotten tomato at Greece yet Greeks are some of the most vehement anti-Americans you will find.
The world, quite simply, does not like your meddling. They do not see you as you see yourself. And you cannot blame them for that.
Now, sure, some nations have different ways of expressing their anti-American disgust. What they would actually do is another question.
If my neighbor is keeping me awake with his stereo at 2:00am, I may hurl every sort of invective at him, even wishing death upon him. What I would actually do to him is something else entirely.
In short, disgusted people say disgusting things. In Iran's case, this appears to be enough to bomb them back to pre-industrialism.

