Is the antipathy towards the UN in the US just xenophobia?
815482
Sierra Leone; Rwanda; Sebrenica; Myanmar; and now Darfur.\n\nTerrorism, despotism, tyranny, and criminal oppression are recognized and thus granted legitimacy by the UN.\n\nJust a few reasons why the UN is not only ineffective, but complicit in the deaths of millions of people worldwide.
744255
They don't...the media, the democrats and the celebraties all do because they can't keep there mouths shut overseas while they play up to their audiences...\n\nThe Dems support the same agenda that the terrorists do...and it is all about hating america...why do you think they want the UN to control US actions?  Not becasue they love it....nope, no sir...\n\nThanks the Republicans who love america and then thank your troops...the vote Liberterian and get all those politicians that voted for the war out.....    :)
898104
Since day one.  "Most of our imports come from overseas" is not the kind of talk from our president that makes me proud.  "Nucular" has also stuck as an irritant.  He seems to pride himself on that stuff.  On the more serious side, invading a country that did not  attack us, voiding the Geneva Convention and advocating of torture, wiretapping without court orders, detaining people without charges, trial or representation, calling those that disagree traitors; these and many other such things coming from our government is much more than embarrassment.  It is contrary to everything I hold dear about being American.  And then there is all the death and destruction, for what?  I think we all would like to find that out, in open hearings.  If that happens, there are going to be a lot of very angry Americans.
983531
They don't hate America.  They only loath the US foreign policy and some arrogant Americans.  Besides, don't generalize.  The individuals who come here are not necessarily the ones who screamed "Down with America".  Maybe it's their neighbors.  Go ask them to be sure.
402987
The UN is basically worthless. They don't side with the democrats specifically, but they like to think they live in a fantasy land of peace at any price, same as the dems.
740484
Pretty much... The whole world hates the US, except for the US itself, who just hates it's president.  The world should hate the man not the country, that's how I see it.  My people didn't make these choices, Bush did.
557967
It amazes me it really does that the USA. \nAs you say in your question, It is hated by the whole world. \nB'Shit. \nNow explain to me why so many people want to go and live in the United States if they are hated by so many. \nWhat your question is really stating is that the ones who hate the USA. \nAre the ones that fear the USA, for their not sitting back and taking it no more. \nlook no further than to the countries who have the most to lose by the USA going on the Offensive. IRAN, SYRIA, They are the ones who hate the USA.\nNo more Terror attacks on US soil. \nSince the USA, Has Got active and started taking the fight to the Terrorists rather than let them come to the USA. Europe are the biggest load of backstabbing countries, Their people are so shit scared to do anything about Terrorism, because of so many of their Inhabitants are mostly from the countries that the Terrorists belong. \nI personally hope when all this is sorted out. And in the future when some hitherto unknown dictator, pops up threatening to do all sorts of Mischief. \nThe USA will just sit back and let the other shit hole countries deal with it. \nThis is my opinion and i am from the UK. \nFcuk the rest, America is best.
594048
Whatever it is, it is too much.  We need to kick that sham organization out of the U.S. and stop paying dues to what has become a total joke.  The U.N. is useless and is actually an impediment to getting anything done globally.
814237
The United Nations actively pursues anti-American policies and appeases America's enemies, while being largely funded by $3 billion worth of annual American dues. After revealing the depth of rampant corruption in the UN, it is time to recognize the changes in Old Europe and redesign America's alliances that line up with America's national interests. \n\nIf John Kerry and Hillary Clinton have their way, Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac will gain veto power over American foreign policy. Scared? You should be. It could happen. And in Inside the Asylum, former deputy undersecretary of defense Jed Babbin shows just how it could happen and why the UN deserves the nickname "The Asylum." \n\nIn the Asylum... \n\n* the UN assists international terrorists. Babbin exposes the shocking links between the UN and terrorist organizations. \n\n* The money trail from the UN to Saddam Hussein. It is time to rip the veil from the outrageous Oil-for-Food program-proving that the UN sold its moral legitimacy for oil, stuffed its own pockets at the expense of the Iraqi people, and undermined American pressure on Saddam Hussein: the UN's cash cow. The UN's Oil-for-Food program, provided Saddam Hussein with the means to bribe politicians, to deprive his people of needed food and medicine, and to literally steal billions of dollars. There is even emerging evidence that money from the program might have gone to support al-Qaeda. \n\n• The UN's raid on the American Treasury: dominated by Third World staffers who consider the United States Treasury "the common heritage of mankind." Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, is an anti-American moral relativist who misses no opportunity to arrogate power from the United States to the UN. \n\n* The United Nations and the European Union are morally bankrupt-and open enemies of the United States. France and the United Nations have cost American lives in Iraq by their perverse delaying of American action in the Iraq War. American troops are fighting and dying today because of a terrorist strategy Saddam Hussein developed while France and the United Nations delayed Operation Iraqi Freedom. \n\nThe UN is more of an international criminal than a dispenser of legitimate international law. If America wants to retain its sovereignty and security, it's time to escape from the UN asylum and say goodbye to the false friends of Old Europe. We owe no tribute to the UN and the EU, We should not be ashamed and divided to look after our own defense." \n\nThe United Nations building in Manhattan is an international enclave, no longer American territory. Inside the Asylum is a powerful argument that it's time to reclaim that land for America.
89985
HATE is a very strong word, but along such negative sentiments, perhaps it's because the U.S. has a very aggressive foreign policy that involves itself in the affairs of other nations, often times for its own interests above those of those countries. According to the President's last State of the Union address, this progressive and competitive edge is what affords Americans a certain lifestyle which, often times, is unavailable in those "hateful" countries. The U.S. comes across as "arrogance" at times and in many cases, just "ignorant' of other countries.\n\nOf course, there are religious assumptions as well. And what exactly you mean by "Americans"... in general?
747887
I agree. Their approach is more of a secular humanist approach to life. This is why they are more civilized, less greedy, protect human rights and the environment, and are generally more progressive and less profit oriented. They don't believe they are morally superior and don't feel the need to go and spread "democracy" like the US does.\nI am speaking about Western Europe.
835821
You're spot on. The UN is acting as a country unto itself. Their inability to operate effectively is proof. They sit on their bloodstained hands when they are needed most and point fingers and accuse when they need to STFU and sit quietly. The graft and deception going on in the UN almost makes the governmental back room dealing a non-issue.
28908
No people are in the UN, only countries.  The UN is not mostly European, it consists of virtually every country in the world.   \n\nThere is plenty wrong with the Un -- but calling it a "pansy" organization is a little silly.
1181216
Total, immediate annihilation of one species or the other. Xenophobia is a natural human reaction. Just look at what has happened when two different races meet for the first time in our history. \n\nHow many native americans do we have left now? Seven? Imagine what our reaction would be if we encounted an entirely different species.\n\nJust some more food for thought: there used to be multiple, independant, intelligent species on this planet. Now there is only one. Anthropologists suggest that we simply killed them all off.
990186
The responses u have received are a good indicator of how insensitive Americans are or whoever ur respondents are... most probably racist jews...  even if u were factually inaccurate how would the Americans like to be under foreign occupation or have their people killed by an occupation force... How can America absolve itself of the genocide in Palestine by saying our allies whom we back are doing this!!\n\nUS may militarily dominate the world but it is certainly the most hated and for good reason too!
728114
I have learned that it is not the American people that the rest of the world doens't like, it's the politics and policies of the government.  Sometimes it comes across as anti-american.  I do wish that the ones who are saying these things would get to know some Americans as you have.  There are good and bad from everywhere.
310720
People hate ignorance and hypocrisy and unfortunately that runs rampant in the USA.\n\n\n\nWe can not appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.\nCarl von Ossietzky