There's a BIG difference between how the US government acts and how US citizens act - most people outside the US don't seem to realise this, and tar everyone with the same brush.
Everyone has preconceived ideas about what people from other nations are like - in the UK, Americans are often percieved as bloodthirsty, gun-toting savages who think they are still living in the days of the wild west. Okay, some of them are but the rest are surprisingly friendly
