Johnsy

Bombing is bombing. Bombs fall and the people getting bombed don't ask is that a legal bomb. As far as I'm concerned all war should be illegal but because of some dictator states and religious nuts there are wars. The US is called upon to act as a policeman.

The Brits could not take care of the problem so they let the French out of jail (in Vietnam 1945). The French could not take care of the problem and Ike suggested nukes (1950's). The Brits vetoed that idea so the US financed the French Indochina war.

The French lost that and the North Vietnamese wanted to kill the Catholic landowners so they all moved to Saigon Operation Passage to Freedom was a term used by the United States Navy to describe its transportation in 1954–55 of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam (the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) to South Vietnam (the State of Vietnam, later to become the Republic of Vietnam). The French military transported a further 500,000.

It went downhill from there. The North wanted to control the whole country and the South want to be left alone.

The US had a mini war with the French in Saigon and won but the US backed a series of wrong dictators.

The rest, as they say, is history.

1973

Jan. 27 — United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the Viet Cong sign a peace agreement in Paris calling for the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. forces and the release of all American POWs by April 1.

Aug. 15— The American pullout is complete when U.S. warplanes cease bombing missions in Indochina.

1975

March — North Vietnam sends 100,000 soldiers against the major cities of South Vietnam.

Do you have any idea how many times I have heard an American say "the US is called upon to act as policeman" or "we are the World's police" That is another big reason for anti-US sentiment. The World has rarely called upon you to be the police, you nominate yourselves all the time, usually with a hidden agenda. Furthermore, when you do nominate yourselves to be the world's police and the World (UN) says no to your own nomination, you just go ahead and invade, kill, overthrow whoever it is you want anyway, sometimes dragging other Nations into it, against the peoples will. Wake up sunshine, this is one of the main reasons most of us don't like America(ns). You're a big bully in a small school yard and the kids are getting sick of you.

OK what are the reasons? 1. Americans are loud. Is that a fact? I'm quiet. 2. Americans don't know anything about the world. Is that a fact? Far more Americans have passports than Brits. That's a fact. there are over 109 million valid U.S. passports in circulation according to the State Department.

America's most popular overseas countries are: England (9% of all trips), France (7%), Italy (7%), Germany (5%), Dominican Republic (5%), Jamaica (5%), Japan (4%), China (4%), India (4%) and Spain (4%). Other significant countries visited include: Bahamas (3%) and Costa Rica (3%). With just six percent of Americans trips going to the Middle East, and even fewer, just three percent, visiting the whole continent of Africa, and two percent going to Australia/New Zealand.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html

this thread is full of reasons. whether you agree with them or not is immaterial., they reflect how folks feel about americans and that was what the OP asked.

The thread is full of nastyisms not reasons. It's full of mocking jibes not reasons.

For example, "MILITARY POWER The United States equals the power of ...Russia, China, Japan, Israel, Great Briton, France, Germany, And the next 6 most powerful nations combined.

I can hear an old Vietnamese gentleman laughing somewhere..." Post # 315

Dr no wrote the above and did not want to state a reason for anti Americanism he only wanted to mock America.

If he would have said people don't like America because of the Vietnam war I'd agree and point out that American youth stopped the war by demonstrations in the street and it was one of the last examples of young people actually influencing policy in the West instead of sitting on their butt playing computer games or looting retail stores.

The majority of the American people did not want the war in Vietnam, that's why it stopped without being won. We knew it was wrong and wanted to get out. I know, I was there. I fought and I protested and the war stopped.

If we hadn't gone to Vietnam, Thailand would be communist now and the Russians would feel more at home than they already do but what the heck. Do you appreciate the sacrifice America made to keep Thailand free?

You just don't get it do you!

"American youth stopped the Vietnam war" you say.

There you go again, bl@#dy yanks

Your congress and virtually the entire American population didn't even know that your government and the CIA were also bombing the <deleted> out of Laos and some of Cambodia, killing tens of thousands of civilians indiscriminately with unconventional weapons. Again, you think you were the only ones fighting in Vietnam don't you? The only ones protesting to stop the war? The only ones doing something to stop the senseless killing of both sides? The whole World had had enough of Vietnam, everyone was protesting about that war. At the least it was every country that was again dragged into another pointless war declared by America using the same untruths that they still use today which still result in the same outcomes. Your government stopped the Vietnam war because America couldn't win that war, do you understand that? Furthermore, staying in that war was far more damaging and costly for the American global image and your economy as well as the brutal divisive impact on your society.

As for your statement about saving Thailand from Communism, well I just can't find words to respond to that, other than, you wonder why you see anti-American sentiments in these posts.....OMG!

So a lot! This line of argument began when I facetiously said that Americans believe that world history started in 1776 and that WWII started in 1942.

But I will move beyond that to also point out that many Americans feel that they are responsible for winning WWII, not considering the sacrifice that Russia made bleeding the Nazis dry on the Eastern Front (there's a reason that German soldiers were fearful of being posted east) or the fact the Britain and the commonwealth had to withstand twin pressures from Japan and Germany years before the US actively joined in. By the time the US joined the cause with its fresh soldiers and equipment, the other belligerents had been much ground down by years of heavy fighting. This is not to take away from the American contribution, but the Americans should not act as if they were the saviours of the west either.

I'm one of them that thinks the USA is responsible for winning the war.

The USA sold ammunition to the allies (I'm trying to keep it simple) under a policy of cash and carry in 1939 and 1940.

Britain and Russia ran out of money in 1940. So in the 3rd month of 1941 the Lend Lease Act was signed into law. The bullets were free but the guns and tanks, food and stuff that weren't blown up or used were to be returned or paid for at the end of the war. The terms of the agreement provided that the materiel was to be used until time for their return or destruction. Canada operated a similar program called Mutual Aid that sent a loan of $1 billion and $3.4 billion in supplies and services to Britain and other Allies.

So, you all would have run out of guns and ammunition and food in 1940 and lost the war if not for the Americans.

The Brits and the Russians were brave and all that but would have lost the war with no weapons or food in 1941 before America officially entered the war.

The Lend-Lease Act was passed by Congress on March 11, 1941. It provided that the president could ship weapons, food, or equipment to any country whose struggle against the Axis assisted U.S. defense.

By permitting the president to ship war equipment and supplies to a besieged Britain, without payback as stipulated by the 1939 Neutrality Act, Lend-Lease empowered the British to resist the German onslaught until Pearl Harbor spurred America into the conflict. In addition, it avoided the prickly issues of post-World War I war debts.

Lend-lease advanced the United States to the edge of war. Such Isolationists as Republican senator Robert Taft spoke against it. The bill would "...give the president power to carry on a kind of undeclared war all over the world, in which America would do everything except actually put soldiers in the frontline trenches where the fighting is," he correctly observed.

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1600.html

So that's the truth and unless you can tell me how the Brits and Russians would have fought a war without food and bullets then the Americans were responsible for winning WWII along with the other allies.

Almost everything you say here is absolutely right, except for "Americans were responsible for winning WWII along with the other allies."

The fact is the Allies were responsible for winning WWII along with the Americans! And that is what gives the World the shits about the yanks, you think you won the war and this is perpetuated by almost every documentary that's been made, mostly with American archival footage. The way this is even referred to is offensive; "America and the allies" The Allies were a much larger fighting force, played a bigger role in more campaigns for longer and payed a far heavier price than America. I'm not taking anything away from the American contribution to WWII or anyone who fought in this epic catastrophe but please keep this in perspective because it's insulting and offensive to all the Allied Nations to here this constant rhetoric that America won WWII.

I've been to America about 3 times and travelled extensively throughout the World running into many Americans. I'm constantly appalled by the exhibitions of self-importance, Christian fundamentalism and plain old stupidity. For example, while in America I was asked on more than one occasion how long it took to get there on the bus, and they weren't joking! Just the other day I had to yell at 6 young Americans to shut the f#@k up as they were so loud and obnoxious they pissed off everyone in the cafe. But I think the biggest issue most of the World has with America(ns) is your foreign policy and the constant insidious meddling and subterfuge of so many countries sold to the rest of the World as some sort of fight against something evil like WMD's, terrorism, etc etc But these policies are to simply advance the USA's global control, power, energy needs, wealth and decadent lifestyle. My father fought in 3 wars, WWII, Korea and Vietnam, the only thing he had to say was that we were shooting the wrong people, we should've been shooting the yanks and he wasn't joking either. I went to war myself and sadly I have to agree with him. I think the biggest risk to Global stability and security is US foreign policy, and sadly your foreign policy is a reflection of your culture.