Ugly Americans

Sometimes Americans are their own worst enemies in Skypeland. This includes both the left wing Americans, and the far right wing Americans. Both think nothing of misrepresenting the situation and ignoring facts and data. And both of them do harm, in the end.

For example some right wingers rant and rave about how they want nonEuropeans out of the US. Some claim that all Muslims are terrorists. Some state belligerently that the US should take over the Middle East and suck all its oil out with no payment. Some state that Islam is an evil religion. Some say that soccer is a game for pussies. Some state the United States is the best country in all aspects and has no faults. Some state that the US went to Iraq to steal their oil and they don't care and are proud of it. None of these sorts of statements from certain elements on the American right are true, or particularly helpful.

Left wing Americans are not much better, with all their talk of 9/11 conspiracy theories and claims that the US is an evil empire. These sort of crazy opinions are accepted as acknowledged truth by Muslims and Europeans and others who hate the US...

And neither the extreme left or the extreme right are very helpful in presenting a true and fair image of the United States, as far as I am concerned.