This is what Bush has wrought...
The administration's philosophy is that power is never negotiated--it is exercised. Belief in the unassailable power of the U.S. comes coupled with the conviction of the nation's divine mission in global affairs. As President Bush told the country in his State of the Union Address last month: "America acts in this cause with friends and allies at our side, yet we understand our special calling..."
But what may seem sublime to some, appears ridiculous to many abroad--and dangerously so. As a result we are seeing a resurgence of some of the ugliest stereotypes of American bullying and hubris.
Worst of all, characteristics associated with the "war president" are increasingly being applied to common Americans as well. At the soccer match between Mexico and the U.S., the Mexican crowd broke out in chants of "Osama, Osama". Pro-terrorists? No, just anti-what the U.S. has come to represent in the world.
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