# Is president Bush killing the reputation of the USA ?

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**Created:** [August 12, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-bush-killing-the-reputation-of-the-usa/123453 "2002-08-12T00:16:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-bush-killing-the-reputation-of-the-usa/123453/101 "2002-08-14T06:44:40Z")

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> \*Originally posted by jjimm \*  
> I don’t like a lot of US foreign policy. However, I do not want to see the USA’s power be diminished. I would like see it used equitably and compassionately. As for economic power: the US is the engine that keeps the rest of the world running. Please continue to be a market for us to sell to (though it would be nice if y’all didn’t wreck the environment while doing it)._Ahem_. **Britain** , thank you (don’t want to take all the heat for that one; though I seriously question your comparison between the military expansionism and genocidal nature of the other three, and the more subtle barbarism employed by the British Empire).

I wasn’t making any comparison between them, I was making a comparison between them individually and the US. I do think that the US is a better superpower than Britain was. I think the British empire was out and out racist. I think that US policy, in general is much less racist than the British empire’s, however, it is a different time.

Erek

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-bush-killing-the-reputation-of-the-usa/123453/102 "2002-08-14T09:21:34Z")

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Fair enough point, **mswas**.

(But we gave them railroads and beaurocracy! ;))

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**Author:** ![papertiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@papertiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papertiger)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-bush-killing-the-reputation-of-the-usa/123453/103 "2002-08-14T13:00:25Z")

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I had more respect for the US under Clinton not because he was morally upright, strong visionary leader, but because he did a decent job compared to the Bush administration.

I don’t see Bush as representing the whole of the US democratically - after that funny shit with the votes in Florida I was highly suspicious. His complete ignorance of foreign affairs turned suspicion into disbelief. His "unilateral"approach to foreign policy turned disbelief into apprehension. When I discovered that he had been a player in the oil market my apprehension solidified - this man was only elected to rubber stamp whatever policy the WTC and multinationals wanted to push through.

So he has definately brought the US down in my estimation even though it was no paragon of virtue before.

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