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Personally, I don't care what other countries think about the US. They're pretty much irrelevant to my daily life. The United States will continue to prosper regardless of what some pissed off French (or a few disgruntled Australians) think of us.
It's a global marketplace, Gene.
We piss off the rest of the world enough and our economy is going to suffer. Americans won't be able to travel safely, people will boycott our trade, tarrifs will go up and new markets will not welcome us.
Oh, and why don't you tell all the families of the people who died in the WTC on Sept. 11th that how the rest of the world views us isn't worth thinking about.