Colin, most americans (outside of a limited number of curious / intelligent / open minded) get their only news from the TV, most likely the network news at the dinner hour. Their entire understanding of the world situation comes those sources - along with the pseudo-journalism of the endless news magazine shows on the air these days. Those viewers tend to get a one sided, pro-american, pro-whitehouse point of view of world events.
As soon as you leave the US and start looking at other news sources (CBC, BBC, ITV as examples) you start to see that there are at least 2 sides to every story, and more often than not one of those sides didn't make the nbc/cbs/abc news that night.
Spend some time watching the BBC news, and see that even the so-called allies have a differnt view of the situation. You will understand more why so many people have a bad opinion of the current situation.
Alex
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