A Debt of GratitudeWhy is Bush so obsessed with ungrateful foreigners?

[The Count]

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In São Paulo, Brazil, last week, on the first day of his Latin America tour, the president said, "I don't think America gets enough credit for trying to improve people's lives."
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In his memoir of his year in Baghdad as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, L. Paul Bremer recalled that President Bush once told him that the leader of a new Iraqi government had to be "someone who's willing to stand up and thank the American people for their sacrifice in liberating Iraq."
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But this peevish imperiousness is precisely what's most disturbing about Bush's incessant concern with the proper level of fealty. The word that he repeatedly uses when discussing what he wants from nations he thinks he's helping—"gratitude"—implies a supplicant's relationship to his lord.

[Book Lover]

1. Link, please?

Thanks in advance.

[Demeter]

2. It's Megalomania

Bush thinks he is a benificent god. Nobody is confirming his delusion. Therefore, he pouts.

[Briar]

3. It isn't only Bush

It's a frequent refrain posted to sites critical of the Bush regime like the Gaurdian. Just last week Radio 4 allowed some swaggering bully who has written a book about how all the bad things are really the fault of the British Empire to force a BBC programme maker to thank the US for all the wonderful things it had done. It's required of us over here - otherwise we are called anti American, which is frowned upon by our ruling class.