* Is it because we don’t help build roads and day-care centers?
No, they hate us because they want to; No other reason necessary.
No matter what the US does to help other people around the world, there are some who are absolutely convinced we mean them harm. We have no record of directly causing harm, although we have done so indirectly through enabling. They don’t see any direct action on our part.
What they see daily is a miserable life. And the people who keep them in that state constantly tell them that we are to blame. And they believe it because nobody feels that their own people, who could help them, wouldn’t. They may realize their own leadership is corrupt, but that only intensifies their suspicion.
We have to remember this every time we hear a report from Iraq, Gaza, or even France.