duh!

now no one wants to let us play on their swingsets and in their sandboxes. i personally don't blame them. they're afraid if they make one wrong move, we'll bitchslap them silly

Global approval of US falls sharply, even among close allies, survey says
Iraq war called bigger threat than Tehran
By Brian Knowlton, International Herald Tribune June 14, 2006

WASHINGTON -- As the war in Iraq continues for a fourth year, the global image of the United States has slipped further, even among people in countries closely allied with the United States, a new global opinion poll has suggested.

Favorable views of the United States dropped sharply over the past year in Spain, where only 23 percent now say they have a positive opinion, down from 41 percent in 2005, according to the survey, which was conducted in 15 countries this spring by the Pew Research Center.

In Britain, Washington's closest ally in the Iraq war, positive views of the United States fell from 75 percent in 2002, before the war began, to 56 percent this year.

Other countries in which positive views dropped significantly included India (56 percent, down from 71 percent since 2005); Russia (43 percent, down from 52 percent); and Indonesia (30 percent, down from 38 percent)........