Opinion on the US and America's Global Policy

On Sunday July 2, 2006 while viewing CBSNews "Sunday Morning" (9:30-10:00am) I heard the comment that 23% of Spain's and about 12% of Turkey's people do not like America. I remember a few years ago after the 9/11 Terror Attack and the US response in the Middle East, the BBCWorld did a formal program on What the World Thinks of America (not the precise BBC words, but the correct principle). The information seen then was not very favorable at all. It appears that the situation has not changed much or for the better in 2006. Scientific Results on the reasons will vary, but I believe the negative views may just be too unfair.

America will always stand-up for "progress and democracy" even if their definition and theory of democracy is not widely accepted, at first. Powerful Global "elites" who govern Nations contrary to democratic principles will easily dislike the US and Americans. "Innovations often erode elites' incumbency advantage, increasing the likelihood that they will be replaced" (http://journals.cambridge.org). Nations that are not democratically governed (by whatever Model-The Philadelphia, Westminster, Consensus, like in the US, Britian, Canada, respectively)will often prefer to keep their "style" of dictatorship or military model. These "elites" as they often are, will dislike the US and that is understandable. But when democratic nations also dislike America then things are not good.