When the day comes that LEGAL immigration drops below the 2+ million mark each year,

and the ILLEGAL immigration numbers of visa overstays from Europe and Asia start to decrease by any amount,

and the world doesn't come seeking US Foreign Aid at no matter what the dollar exchange rate is,

and the European Union stops fighting to have the Visa Waiver Program apply across-the-board,

and the Eastern European countries stops bypassing the EU to cut better business/travel deals with the US,

and the European (notice a "Europe" trend here???) and other national airlines stop trying to add flights into American airports,

and all of the cruise ships (which are all foreign-flag registered and have NO US crew/staff) stop filling up with passengers at US ports,

and another country ponies up to take the United Nations and all of the real costs (dues notwithstanding) associated with keeping that abomination within one of its cities,

then and then alone will I really care what "they" think of Americans.

You can bet that whenever "they" run into trouble, the expectation that those "ugly Americans" will be there to bail them out of hot water shall arise aloud and strong.

Bottom line - those in Europe especially who post **** Bush or any other such slop only have the capability to do so because Americans bled for them. Absent American sacrifice, those hypocritical ingrates would be living (if you could call it that!) under either the swastika or hammer-and-cycle.

Talk about disdain - mine toward those snobs is pretty high.

The last time I looked there were no cemeteries in the US filled with Europeans who died here, but I can go around this planet - in Europe and Asia - and find several containing a humbling number of tombstones (thousands!) marking some American's son, brother or father's sacrifice because Europeans and Asians couldn't make peace as neighbors.

I have several European and Asian friends and colleagues, good people who follow the Golden Rule, and I treasure them and our friendship. But as far as those around the world who burn our flag, mock our citizenry and snub our leaders and diplomats - yet are all too quick to be there with their hand out for a free buck or to have their butts protected, to &$@@ with them....