Green Shinobi said:
No, America is viewed the way it is because Europeans think it was such a huge travesty that we circumvented the U.N. to invade Iraq coupled with the fact that there were no W.M.D.'s found in that country.
And because it doesn't respect human rights, and because the world economy is going down the shitter, and because Bush singlehandedly disrupted the Middle-East, and because it wipes its ass with international conventions, and because the current government doesn't give a shit about nature or environment, and because they're already starting war talk against Iran while they're still with both feet in deep shit in 2 other countries, and because Europe was/is forced to take safety measures that go against it's own privacy laws, and ... because of a loooooooot of shit the past 8 years.
Most of the hate is deserved, some of it is just thrown on the pile of hate because it's the hot thing to do.
Green Shinobi said:
Also the fact that apparently much of the world has a super-short attention span and no perspective of history, which is ironic, since that's one of the things they accuse Americans of.
This poll asks what country
currently has the best influence. Germany does well (unlike 60 years ago), USA does bad (unlike 60 years ago). And thank god history doesn't have to be always factored in, or Germany would be in the last place forever no matter what they do, and the US would get a free ticket to keep on fucking the world over.
(That doesn't change the fact however that Germany has the moral duty to apologize for the past events, or that Europe should be thankful that the US saved their asses.)