The USA "bashing" has nothing to do with history but with the way the US government is acting now. I have been to the US and almost all the people I met, white, black or native Americans, were very friendly people that I like to meet again.
I won't discuss the wars with enemies of the US but what is a problem to me is the way the US treats friends. If I go to the US now, I have to have my fingerprints and picture taken. They need a lot of "private" information that they keep for a long time before I can enter a flight to the US. Because the US government considers all "foreigners" as potential terrorist they treat me as a criminal. That is not the best way to make friends. I rather spend my money somewhere else and wait for a new US governement that does not treat their friends as criminals before I visit the US again.
If you read the travel reports on the HU site and other sites, you will notice that all over the world, the "normal" people are friendly. It is governments and political and religious leaders that make the problems. The problem that a lot of Europeans have with the US is not the people of the US but the government !!
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Jan Krijtenburg
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