An interesting statistic for the Americans here:
Less than 5% of the worlds population lives in the United States.
That means over 95% of the worlds population is not an American.
When you consider those numbers, it is amazing how gigantic an influence the states has on our world politics.
I've visited 22 different states in the US. Yes I loved my trip there and found the people to be very friendly.
The problem is however, and I don't mean this to offend, but a large amount of Americans are totally ignorant about the rest of the world, YET have their media telling them that a certain country is bad and should be invaded. So you vote for leaders who say they will invade, and because you guys have so much global power you do just that.
While in Alabama a women asked me where I was from (She heard my accent). When I said Australia, she replied with "What state is that in?"
You would HOPE that she was just a complete idiot and not representative of the general american population..... However a few of our Kiwi friends had to explain that New Zearland was a real country and not some state of Australia.
Like I said, almost everyone was lovely and friendly, but I would bet $50 if the US government wanted to invade Australia, it wouldn't take much to convince the people that we were 'evil doers' and wanting to harm America.
Having said that, Australian Bogans (our rednecks) are pretty ignorant and stupid as well.
And America has acomplished many great things.
Just end Fox news, leave Iraq/Afghanistan, kill that dumbass Sarah Palin, blow up the Westboro baptist church, don't export episodes of Jerry Springer and tell Oprah to pay for her own damn holiday and we will all love America again

(Oh and perhaps tone down the Christianity a little?)