Fixing Uncle Sam’s Image Problem

To Junkman, you and your comment reflects why the rest hates Amerian right now. Seriously, you SHOULD care about what the rest of the world thinks because America would be nothing without the rest of the world.

I???m worry about if Obama will invade the relation between USA and China like Collinton.

In President-elect Obama's book "Audacity of Hope," there's a chapter about the U.S.'s relationship with the rest of the world and how this country's approach needs to change. I think now we have the audacity to hope...

Get rid of Bush and Cheney will fix this country's problem immediately

Get rid of Bush-Cheney will correc t most of the world 's problem with this country

For some reason the title alone caught me with an immediate reply: That our great country already has an image of freedom and true democracy that in action stands out as a stronger voice than any one writer or public speaker could ever do. We elect our government and hold them accountable in War and in Peace, in times of national threat, and in times of economic struggle. While this author is clearly bias in his perspective, I submit we all are in some way. The best way for the future of the United States of America to continue is to remain grounded in the same religious and personal freedoms that brought this country to power. In closing I would suggest we remember lessons from the past when we as a nation wanted to only be concerned with what happened inside our boaders and support the fights for freedom in every corner of the globe!

Promoting democracy IS a strategy, and the best one the world has found so far. It seems Mr. Mahbubani chooses to pretend that Fukuyama was never born. I've got to think that promoting his own book and his own publicity probably depends on a gullible public, and statements like this.

There has never been a war between two mature democracies. What more needs to be said? Singapore herself has realized a great deal of benefit from the strategy.

We should always scrutinize our behavior, and correct mistakes of the past, but the arguments of Mr. Mahbubani show little consistency, and surely no strategy at all, only tactical attempts to make every country happy, no matter the threat they pose to their neighbors, or to their own citizens.

"Yet the same administration has also improved America's relations with China and India"
Maybe because corporate America is bending over for them in every way. It's easy for then to love a whore when the legs are spread for them. The question is do the RESPECT the US? Doubtful,

Promoting democracy IS a strategy, and the best one the world has found so far. It seems Mr. Mahbubani chooses to pretend that Fukuyama was never born. I've got to think that promoting his own book and his own publicity probably depends on a gullible public, and statements like this.

There has never been a war between two mature democracies. What more needs to be said? Singapore herself has realized a great deal of benefit from the strategy.

We should always scrutinize our behavior, and correct mistakes of the past, but the arguments of Mr. Mahbubani show little consistency, and surely no strategy at all, only tactical attempts to make every country happy, no matter the threat they pose to their neighbors, or to their own citizens.

The Unite States has NO obligation to the rest of the world. To place a gun at the head of Americans an take their money to prop up a stone-age government that has been one failure after another for over 5000 years is a loser. The problem of all the backward countries is their fault. That caaan not be fixe by whinning to the American people. It must be remembered that "No one really wants to live in a village".


sunny

Great read.

And don't mind the comments below. Obviously your reasoning in this well put article are lost upon one dimensional fools such as "Proud American" (and there are no greater enslaved than those that truly believe they are free-thank you Goethe)...not that the world takes people like them seriously anyways. They are merely pawns on a chessboard that are moved around strategically until their end.

While one could certainly agree with the fact that the United States acting unilaterely has created a poor opinion of our citizens as bullies and fools cut off from the world, I don't believe that is the whole story. I would say that if any group has an image problem, it would be the entire Muslim religion. We have seen this in Darfur and in Somalia, in Afganistan and Pakistan, in London and Madrid and in New York and Washington. How did it look to the rest of the world when terrorist threats and riots occured over a simple comic strip in the Netherlands? Despite my firm belief in every individuals right to believe what they will, any religion that dictates forced conversion or death does not offer viable options for communication or finding a middle ground. Simply put, those who follow Islam are allowing those who represent the worst of humanity to be thier voice to the world. It is difficult to believe protestations of the Koran as a document of peace when every month the world is subjected to ample proof to the contrary. Yes, the United States must clean up its image and work towards greater communication in the world community, but that is a two-way street. The world must work towards presenting a better image of itself. Because if Jesus Christ or Mohammed or Abraham or Confucious could see us today, they would turn their head away in shame.

you know what i'm not going to argue over a article writen about our country, by someone who's name i can't correctly pronounce on the first try.

I am a White southern Christian (NOT GAYor ATHEIST) and am appalled @ the way the world has gone because of the last 8 years. Give the new administration a chance to fix it.. Being a liberal does not necessarily mean being pro gay, atheist, and what ever you think about hating us. My self has problems with the agenda of the liberal side but it still boils down to what was evident when FDR was coming into power; the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. It is to the point that what ever happens on the other side of the world affects what happens in your world.You are a minority now that does not understand that there is another world out there that does not accept your view of the current status quo. We have an obligation from God to give our elected leaders a chance to make a better world or if not we still have the commandment. Personally, I do not care what Mahbubani has to say about what the US should do. I will work as long as I can and provide for my family and not worry about what the course of others take. The best advice I can give is to get on your knees and humble yourself and pray for ourselves and our leaders to do what is right for the world.

Another foreigner (USA hater) trying to tell us how to make them like us. What a ridiculous story. Personally I'm sick to death of everybody in the world telling us we're this and that, what we are is on the way out because liberal lemmings listen to idiots like this...