LMAO really! I love my humble british existance. I don't much want your murder rates, political interferance, police culture, gun allowance. Im much more content with REAL freedom+democracy (or something that feels like it as the case may soon be), and 'trash culture' from Chavs.
Your the sterotypical American Urban (the only one I've had the pleasure of talking to). You represent everything the world hates about your country (justified and otherwise), not what its jealous about. I was waiting eagerly for you to play the jealousy card... very eagerly.
This is the lowest point you've reached yet, and therefore will derive the most pleasure from replying too...
Your hated because;
Patriosm and Self-Rightousness "awakened to danger" and "called to defend freedom"- You bear claim that attacks on your country are attacks on freedom and democracy. Yet the attacks are purely on American features... not freedom and democracy. Its AMERICA the people are aiming for, not what it claims to represent.
The lingo you use - The language employed stinks of a kind of patriotism akin to complete indifference to the rest of the world and ignorance of America's own problems. There is a very show-off, macho, self-gratifying kind of righteousness in American speech about themselves which people either assume is intentionally ironic and over the top, or they are shocked and end up thinking that American's actually think like that. The amount of self loving literature in American culture is assumed by many to be an indication that America's population deep down feel bad about their country.
Wake up Patriot!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4255855,00.html
Finally, the issue many Europeans have is your self gratification for activities in WW2. You boast about your late intervention (something you should be ashamed of), and your ability to defeat the enemy (yet it took Pearl Habour to get you in). So you gave us some equipment, woopdeydo... you leased it! If you wish to refute this point, also tell me the countries YOU think were merely involved.
What makes it worse is I know for a fact that not all Americans are like this, and your just the perfect sterotypical representation of a patriotic, egotistical, unmoving standly American. I can't believe you hold some of the views you do... I'm forced to believe you have some other reason behind it, maybe to play the bad guy, I don't know.
/Leo