>As regards bashing President Bush I still feel that the real problem is that he trusts his advisors too much and, worse, sticks by them even in the face of overwhelming evidence of gross mis-advising. The president, and thus the country, naturally get tarred with those mis-advisings.
>I continue to believe that a huge majority of U.S. residents are upset by the overall de-generation of government there and the image of the U.S. seen now by other countries.

Even if that's so, I think the US is the one and only country that the common people around the world count on for help when things go bad. And we usually deliver. Ok call ME foolish.

Sometimes United States can't win for loosing. It's damned if we do and damned if we don't.