It is no surprise that the rest of the world hates us. We are the most powerful nation on Earth (for now!), have maintained for a long time a wonderful standard of living for most of our citizens, and have completely no regard for anyone's interest but our own. I am sure all those things are related somehow. What we do have to recognize, though, is that as the world becomes truly global, our hold on it's economics and natural resources will diminish. There will come a time when we really have to share in order to survive. Let's just hope that the rest of the world has a short memory...