I will go slightly off-topic here.
I don't believe any occupant of any country is perfectly satisfied with their government. I know we aren't here in Norway. I don't know which party to vote for, simply because none of the parties (and we have a LOT of them) have a party program I wish to endorse. The ONE thing that made me think about voting for Venstre (Left, one of the two oldest parties in Norway), was a handout of toothbrushes in a case stating they wanted everyone to get free dental care, along with free general health care. But my vote wouldn't have mattered based on that. They barely makes the limit for representation in Stortinget (our main governing body) which is at 4% of the votes.

All I know, is that I don't want any of the morons currently in Stortinget or Regjeringen (Kind of like the Cabinet in US, I believe) to be governing the country I live in. Because that's what they are. Our last election started with something called Soria-Moriaerklæringen (Declaration of Soria-Moria), a pact and common declaration of policy between a few parties to be sure they would get seats in Regjeringen. One of the main issues was that foreign workers in Norway, as long as they weren't illegal immigrants, would have the same rights as Norwegian employess, meaning, along with other things, they would have a contract of employment. They chose to hold this meeting at a hotel where there were foreign workers that didn't have such contracts. It was quite common knowledge, but they didn't care about it. They never excused themselves for not checking up on this. They just never mentioned it. That showed me that what they wanted to change, stated in their policy, wouldn't happen.

Politicians want only one thing: Power and publicity. They want power for the sake of power, not for the good of the people. Someone once said "Even bad press is good press"
And I believe an old Greek wiseman was truly insightful and true when he said "No man (person) who wants to be a politician should ever be allowed to sit in the Senate (hold office)"

Back to our scheduled program: Personally I believe it was correct to invade Iraq. Even if the reasons stated for doing so was false. I believe it was correct to overthrow the government in that country. The population of that country didn't have enough power themselves to change their government. But what has happened afterwards is a seriously botched exercise of power.

I can't come up with a better idea for how it should've been done either, but it has been proven that the recent idea doesn't work.

As for the sectarian governments of this region, I truly believe that they are just at a normal stage in their religion. Look at most of the other religions of the world. At first, there is unity and conformity to the rules/laws/ideas/etc of that religion. After some time, someone challenge that idea, and they break off and form another sub-division of religion. This is not liked by the old group, and the new group despise the "archaic" thought-patterns of the old. The old, being a larger group has more power, and opress the new group. Sometimes for a very long time. This has happened time and time again. The best example I can give (because that's the history I have read the most on) is the Inquisition. The Roman-Catholic Church didn't want any dissidents, so if you spoke up about injustice towards people under the cover of religion, they were "corrected". This went on for a long time.

I believe the Islamic world is at that stage in their religious development. But where the Inquisition lasted many centuries, I believe the Islamic development will take less time due to globalisation. New ideas and techniques travel the world faster than ever before. Just look at this forum. Just 15 years ago, this forum wouldn't have been all that it is today. We might have been talking to eachother via computer, but all the pictures herein, all the stories, all the stored communication wasn't a possibility.

I say we should give help, advise, negotiate with these countries as is fit. We should state to them that we don't like the way they are running their countries. We can impose on them trade embargos. Money makes the world go round. If the governing body sees that their comfort starts being in the danger zone, they soon will change. Or the people, who feel the need first, will start a revolution.

I believe that's the way to go. The French Revolution lasted ten years. But we are getting used to information being so convenient, and we are so used to seeing wars being fought and decided within two hours (roughly a standard Hollywood movie) that we get impatient. We want to meddle in the ongoing conflict to make sure it is solved before dinner.

A human life lost in vain is sad, but how come one life has become so precious? We got comforts. We don't see dead people anymore. Earlier, people died at home from disease, injuries or old age. They died in wars and conflicts because they believed strongly in a cause. We made sure to stuff them away.

I have now gone way off-topic. But to me, these things are linked. I can't distinguish one of these without seeing all the others.

I like the US personally. I think it seems like a great country. Maybe not much better or worse than my own, but I like it, and the population. I don't like the President and his Cabinet, and probably wouldn't like most of the politicians as politicians, but that's because they're politicians. I might've liked them personally.

So, does the world hate USA? In my opinion, no. They hate the people at the top. The ones responsible. The ones that do whatever they can to stay at the top as long as possible.