Days Later and We're Still Hated!

This headlines really say it all:

"Iran says Obama's offer to talk shows US failure... 'Western ideology has become passive'..."

Seems that all the prognostication of Obama making the world love us was a bit overblown. Obama may have managed to give the western critics a moment of pause, but not because they suddenly love us, only because they need a new thing to bitch about.

It's way past time for America to wise up, grow a backbone, and own up to its place in the world, at the top. Someone has to be at the top, and the whole world should get on its knees and thank God it is the US. The US has shown so much restraint in the use of its power that it is unprecedented in all of history. We just tend to get more by bashing fewer heads.

That all said, some people in the world still don't like us. It would not matter who was president. They don't like us.

The Libertarians say, this is a fine state of affairs and that we should only concern ourselves where our direct national interests lie. If we were at all smart about this we would be running head long to break the dependence we have on foreign oil. This would allow us to keep our troops at home, and let the rest of the world take care of itself.

You want a stimulus package? Spend 700 billion dollars increasing our abilities to produce energy here in the USA. Drill oil. Mine coal. Build nuclear power plants. Erect wind and solar farms. Put those millions of reserved acres of land back into corn production. Find new sources of energy. That would do something worth while.

But no matter what we do or who is president, people are going to hate us. Let them. And keep our American boots ready to apply to their necks if they should even think of attacking us.