Why do they hate us?

Sara over at Orcinus, has a post up where she expands on Glenn Greenwald's discussion of the plummeting support in the rest of the world for not just the policies of the United States, but now even the people of the United States. Her last graf:

Those who remember America The Good are passing, leaving the world in the hands of those who only have memories of America the Evil. Any PR person can tell you that a good reputation lost takes Herculean efforts to regain. Of all the battles that await us, this one may be the hardest -- and, realistically, it's one we probably shouldn't expect to win in our lifetimes.