Why do they hate us

Why do they hate us, we all ask, quite aghast

Not because we will not join in banning the blind crippling of land mines

But why do they hate us, we must ask again

We will not join their foolish and costly greenhouse reduction folly

Tell us clearly then and get to the point, why do they hate us

Our citizens alone must remain above the laws of any world court

Why do they hate us, we ponder driving alone in our obese gas hogs

we won’t sign their treaties for the rights of women or children

One more time, name the thing that they hate that lurks here within us

we subsidize farming but preach free trade to a world that is starving

Even so, show me the one thing that makes them hate us all

we let a million die in Rwanda but intervene over Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil

Look, in plain language just spell it out - why do they hate us

over 2 million die of AIDS in Africa without our concern every year

but we trumpet that the greatest tragedy of them all happened on 9-11

Seriously, though, do they really hate us all

we will not sign their treaty to put an end to chemical warfare

You simply must give the reason that they target us with hatred

we hasten the cutting of the 2% old growth that is left on our land

while counseling them to save all of the forests that they still have

But, really then, that could not be why they would hate us

we give them our worst jobs and make slaves of their peoples,

poison their waters and ravage their lands to satisfy our consumer whims

Certainly that is not why they would hate us

we are illiterate, cultural imperialists

waterboarding their minds with our vapid Hollywood entertainment

That just sounds like nonsense, what's the real reason they hate us

We just yell at them louder in a language that we ourselves cannot even read or write

Give it a break and tell me why do they hate us

we generously support criminal regimes that repress and torture them

and let them rob their countries blind with a wink and a nod

Surely you jest, now tell the truth, why do they hate us

we trade them all off, one against another

while we try and take them for everything, that they still have

Why do they hate us, why do they hate us, we must ask again

Because God is on our exceptionist side

and they must be either with or against us for United We Stand

In reality, you have not outlined any real reason for their hatred

Well, we are an outlaw, cowboy nation run by fundamentalists

Possessed of lots of nasty weapons, pointed in all directions

Sing it loudly, now brother, and say it really ain’t that they hate us

We have proudly, noisily and foolishly descended

From the land of the free and the home of the brave

To the land of the ignorant and the home of the half-cocked

You mumble half truths relying on junk science, speak up, why do they hate us

Six percent of world population but, 35 percent of all its emissions

And eleven percent of us cannot even find our own country on a globe

Enough of spineless, liberal claptrap: where is their hatred against us?

We spout off about universal opportunity and equality

While generations right here live in poverty, hopelessness and ignorance

These unrelated and twisted facts are not enough, why would they hate us

We side with the jews who enclose the arabs in a sandy ghetto

And vote with the Israelis when it counts and give them lots of money

That is all just so many smelly road apples - now, why do they direct hatred our way

Our poorest abusers waste more every day on drugs

Than those without drinking water, electricity or gas earn in a month

Why would they hate us, is it not just simple jealousy?

We spend more on defense than the rest of them combined

We invade and torture and then lecture them on freedom and morality

Why do they hate us

We sneer and laugh at them like they were ignorant, bumbling idiots

So unswervingly certain of our god-given place at the head of the table