What I was trying to point out is that it’s not about you. No reasonable person is either going to (1) thank you personally for landing on the Moon or (2) blame you for killing half a million Iraqis.
Most bad things the US does is done by the government. And the US is not terribly democratic anyway.
So you can chill out.
> This is how you disregard the opinion of 8 billion people? Memes? […] Flippantly dismissing all this is the American Way.
I keep becoming an Honorary American.
> Sure, it feels good to be blissfully ignorant of how detested we've become, and how far we have fallen in the eyes of the world.
“Fallen”.
It seems you interpreted my whole comment as an excuse for what America does. When what I said was:
- Europeans seemed to love the US when their interpretation of “the US” was by way of the US (Hollywood)
- Europeans seemed to start disliking the US when they saw what America is like by way of the Internet
I can’t fathom how that is a compliment.
Your pre-2003 amnesia is interesting but oh well; it seems that it can go in either direction.