Ugly American

Regarding the stories and pictures of the American contractors in Afghanistan: According to the Encarta dictionary “Ugly American” as: Stereotypical offensive American: a loud, boorish, nationalistic American, especially one traveling abroad, who is regarded as conforming to a stereotype that gives Americans a bad reputation. In contrast, Dictionary.com defines "the Ugly American" as: “Pejorative term for Americans traveling or living abroad who remain ignorant of local culture and judge everything by American standards.”

What happen in Afghanistan was absolutely discussing and now you know why people in other counties and in particular the Muslim countries think of us. Then you ask why we are loosing the war and Bin Laden is highly regarded in the Muslim world. Go figure!